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author | Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> | 2003-04-09 20:14:10 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> | 2003-04-09 20:14:10 +0000 |
commit | 931a3d4a8e35024c4957acb224acaa0265d99b40 (patch) | |
tree | 72ec3acb0dfa9b9973a472221268d9b34ad748f9 /HISTORY | |
parent | 1d5d86ae44eb01b24dd0dbc0bb0c8fb8022eaa1c (diff) | |
download | sudo-931a3d4a8e35024c4957acb224acaa0265d99b40.tar.gz |
Update info on the early years @ SUNY-Buffalo from Cliff Spencer.
Amazingly, sudo source from 1985 is available via groups.google.com
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@@ -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 |