From: Todd C. Miller Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:30:32 +0000 (+0000) Subject: More info on the early days from Coggs. X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_6_8~314 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04b4026624b4f73c33bc9b00ac7cb88a98dd4553;p=sudo More info on the early days from Coggs. --- diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 5f315ce7c..5c5ef67f4 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ A Brief history of sudo(8): -The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's. -The first version of sudo was written there by Cliff Spencer in -1983. An updated version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, -Gretchen Phillips, John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the -net.sources newsgroup in December of 1985. +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 a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD. An updated +version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips, +John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources newsgroup +in December of 1985. In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released and enhanced version of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful