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1.8     ! millert     1: A brief history of sudo:
1.1       millert     2:
1.8     ! millert     3: Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer
        !             4: around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on
        !             5: a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel,
        !             6: Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to
        !             7: the net.sources Usenet newsgroup in December of 1985.
        !             8:
        !             9: In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version of sudo.
        !            10: For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at
        !            11: CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein.
        !            12:
        !            13: In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an
        !            14: enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm called "The Root
        !            15: Group". This version was later released under the GNU public license.
        !            16:
        !            17: In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for some time,
        !            18: Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug fixes
        !            19: and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to differentiate
        !            20: it from the "official" version from "The Root Group".
        !            21:
        !            22: In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris Jepeway.
        !            23: The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one) and could work with
        !            24: both sudo and visudo (previously they had slightly different parsers).
        !            25:
        !            26: In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in his spare
        !            27: time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site to his domain,
        !            28: courtesan.com.
        !            29:
        !            30: In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has been no
        !            31: formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the original
        !            32: authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any
        !            33: of the original "Root Group" code and is available under an ISC-style
        !            34: license.
        !            35:
        !            36: In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved from
        !            37: courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken).
        !            38:
        !            39: In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the features that
        !            40: had been added in the past ten years. This new parser removes some
        !            41: limitations of the previous one, removes ordering constraints and adds
        !            42: support for including multiple sudoers files.
1.6       millert    43:
1.1       millert    44: sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
                     45:
1.8     ! millert    46:         Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
1.1       millert    47:
                     48: Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
1.8     ! millert    49: