1 This is Sudo version 1.8.0
5 Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
6 to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
7 privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
11 Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
12 version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
13 ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
16 The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
17 version number and `m' is the minor version number.
18 BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
19 the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
20 (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
24 See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release.
25 For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. For a
26 summary of major changes to the current stable release, see the web
27 page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html.
29 If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
30 the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
32 For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
36 To build sudo from the source distribution you need a nominally
37 POSIX-compliant operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux
38 or UNIX should work), a working ANSI/ISO C compiler (C89 or higher),
39 and the ar, make and ranlib utilities
41 If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
42 2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
43 tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
44 uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
45 --with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
46 ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
47 get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
52 Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
53 trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
58 Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
59 Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
63 sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
65 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
67 sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
68 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
70 sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
71 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
73 sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
74 the sudo source repository.
75 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
77 To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
78 your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
79 these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
82 Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
83 for the appropriate links.
87 There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/ that contains
88 an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
89 beta versions and other useful info.
93 If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
94 report in the sudo bug database, on the web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
96 Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file in the doc directory *before*
97 submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include
98 the version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running