From 6b941870e92859fd17f31dae398fa02648b9209d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:14:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update info on the early years @ SUNY-Buffalo from Cliff Spencer. Amazingly, sudo source from 1985 is available via groups.google.com --- HISTORY | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index 71d1d9e2c..5f315ce7c 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,10 +1,15 @@ A Brief history of sudo(8): The sudo philosophy originated at SUNY-Buffalo in the early 1980's. -In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder enhanced sudo and released it -to the public. 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. +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. + +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 +of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and +Trent Hein. In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm -- 2.40.0