-A brief history of sudo:
+A Brief History of Sudo:
+
+The Early Years
Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer
around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. It ran on
Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to
the net.sources Usenet newsgroup in December of 1985.
+Sudo at CU-Boulder
+
In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version of sudo.
For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at
CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein.
+Root Group Sudo
+
In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an
enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm called "The Root
Group". This version was later released under the GNU public license.
+CU Sudo
+
In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for some time,
-Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug fixes
-and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to differentiate
-it from the "official" version from "The Root Group".
+Todd C. Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug
+fixes and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to
+differentiate it from the "official" version from "The Root Group".
In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris Jepeway.
The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one) and could work with
time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site to his domain,
courtesan.com.
+Just Plain Sudo
+
In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there had been no
formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the original
authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any
In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved from
courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken).
+LDAP Integration
+
In 2003, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company contributed code written by
Aaron Spangler to store the sudoers data in LDAP. These changes were
incorporated into Sudo 1.6.8.
+New Parser
+
In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the features that
had been added in the past ten years. This new parser removes some
limitations of the previous one, removes ordering constraints and adds
support for including multiple sudoers files.
+Quest Sponsorship
+
In 2010, Quest Software began sponsoring Sudo development by hiring Todd to
work on Sudo as part of his full-time job.
-sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
+Present Day
+
+Sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
- Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
+ Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
-=head1 A brief history of sudo:
+=head1 A Brief History of Sudo:
+
+=head3 The Early Years
Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources Usenet
newsgroup in December of 1985.
+=head3 Sudo at CU-Boulder
+
In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version
of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
Trent Hein.
+=head3 Root Group Sudo
+
In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the
GNU public license.
+=head3 CU Sudo
+
In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
-some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
+some time, Todd C. Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The
"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
"The Root Group".
his spare time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp
site to his domain, courtesan.com.
+=head3 Just Plain Sudo
+
In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there had
been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
(the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo
from courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already
taken).
+=head3 LDAP Integration
+
In 2003, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company contributed code written
by Aaron Spangler to store the sudoers data in LDAP. These changes
were incorporated into Sudo 1.6.8.
+=head3 New Parser
+
In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the
features that had been added in the past ten years. This new parser
removes some limitations of the previous one, removes ordering
constraints and adds support for including multiple sudoers files.
+=head3 Quest Sponsorship
+
In 2010, Quest Software began sponsoring Sudo development by hiring
Todd to work on Sudo as part of his full-time job.
-sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
+=head3 Present Day
+
+Sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
- Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
+ Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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