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| author | Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> | 2003-04-28 23:30:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> | 2003-04-28 23:30:32 +0000 |
| commit | 9f8ed1d6f953c61ae86036f8f3fd298cf2b82c5a (patch) | |
| tree | 27a05cc93baf87e0c1dbfc4aef55a62db197b2d7 /HISTORY | |
| parent | e680d0bb2706ccd0c9e3c1b35a32266c4e0aa30d (diff) | |
| download | sudo-9f8ed1d6f953c61ae86036f8f3fd298cf2b82c5a.tar.gz | |
More info on the early days from Coggs.
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@@ -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 |