From: Todd C. Miller Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 04:52:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: updates from Nieusma X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_5_4~23 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce0fc8333233fba8858f96077fc4566d3b444639;p=sudo updates from Nieusma --- diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index bc1d1eaa5..7aeb6ccfa 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -7,12 +7,10 @@ sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein. -In 1991, the University of Colorado and a consulting firm -named "The Root Group" both paid (unbeknownst to each -other) a group of programmers to add enhancements to sudo. -Instead of using existing code, they started from scratch. -These programmers (Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma) eventually -released the new code under the GNU general license. +In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version +of sudo with an enhanced sudoers format. This version +was bought by a consulting firm called "The Root Group" +and released under the GNU general license. In 1996, Todd Miller, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in his spare time, brought sudo