1 This is Sudo version 1.7.4
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
32 For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file.
36 To build sudo from the source distribution you need a machine running
37 Unix (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or POSIX will do), a working C
38 compiler, and the make utility.
40 If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
41 2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
42 tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
43 uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
44 --with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
45 ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
46 get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
51 Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
52 trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
57 Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
58 Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
62 sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
64 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
66 sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
67 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
69 sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
70 http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
72 sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
73 the sudo source repository.
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76 To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
77 your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
78 these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
81 Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
82 for the appropriate links.
86 There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/ that contains
87 an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
88 beta versions and other useful info.
92 If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
93 report in the sudo bug database, on the web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
95 Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file *before* submitting a bug
96 report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include the version of
97 sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running it on.