1 This is Sudo version 1.7.2
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
13 from ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/.
14 The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
15 version number and `m' is the minor version number.
16 BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
17 the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
18 (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
22 For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file that came with this
25 For a complete list of changes, see the CHANGES file. For a summary,
26 see the web page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/.
28 If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
31 NOTE: Starting with sudo 1.5.7 the configuration method has changed
32 significantly as compared to previous versions. All options
33 are now set via the configure script. See the `INSTALL' file
34 for a list of all the configure options.
38 To build sudo from the source distribution you need a machine running
39 UN*X (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or POSIX will do), a working C
40 compiler, and the make utility.
42 If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
43 2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
44 tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
45 uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
46 --with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
47 ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
48 get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
53 Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
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 To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
74 your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
75 these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
78 Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
79 for the appropriate links.
83 There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ that contains
84 an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
85 beta versions and other useful info.
89 If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
90 report with the sudo bug database, on at web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
92 Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file *before* submitting a
93 bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include the
94 version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running