-This is Sudo version 1.7.0
-
The sudo philosophy
===================
Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
Where to find sudo
==================
Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current
-version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp
-from ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/.
-The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
-version number and `m' is the minor version number.
-BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join
-the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
-(see the `Mailing lists' section below).
+version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
+ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
+http://www.sudo.ws/
+
+The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major version
+number and `m' is the minor version number. BETA versions of sudo may
+also be available. If you join the `sudo-workers' mailing list you
+will get the BETA announcements (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
What's new
==========
-For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file that came with this
-release.
-
-For a complete list of changes, see the CHANGES file. For a summary,
-see the web page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/.
+See the NEWS file for a list of major changes in this release.
+For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file. For a
+summary of major changes to the current stable release, see the web
+page, http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/stable.html.
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
-the UPGRADE file.
+the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
-NOTE: Starting with sudo 1.5.7 the configuration method has changed
- significantly as compared to previous versions. All options
- are now set via the configure script. See the `INSTALL' file
- for a list of all the configure options.
+For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
+You can find a list of contributors to sudo in the doc/CONTRIBUTORS file.
System requirements
===================
-To build sudo from the source distribution you need a machine running
-UN*X (most flavors of BSD, SYSV, or POSIX will do), a working C
-compiler, and the make utility.
+To build sudo from the source distribution you need a POSIX-compliant
+operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux or Unix should
+work), an ANSI/ISO C compiler that supports variadic marcos (a C99
+feature) and the ar, make and ranlib utilities.
If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser). You'll also have to
uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
---with-devel option. You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
-ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror. You can
-get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
-mirror.
+--with-devel option. You can get flex from http://flex.sourceforge.net/.
+You can get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any
+GNU mirror.
Building the release
====================
Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
-trying to build sudo.
+trying to build sudo. Pay special attention to the "OS dependent notes"
+section.
Copyright
=========
sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
+sudo-commits This list receives a message for each commit made to
+ the sudo source repository.
+ http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-commits
+
To subscribe to a list, visit its url (as listed above) and enter
your email address to subscribe. Digest versions are available but
these are fairly low traffic lists so the digest versions are not
Web page
========
-There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ that contains
+There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/ that contains
an overview of sudo, documentation, downloads, information about
beta versions and other useful info.
Bug reports
===========
If you have found what you believe to be a bug, you can file a bug
-report with the sudo bug database, on at web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
+report in the sudo bug database, on the web at http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/.
-Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file *before* submitting a
-bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include the
-version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
+Please read over the `TROUBLESHOOTING' file in the doc directory *before*
+submitting a bug report. When reporting bugs, please be sure to include
+the version of sudo you are using as well as the platform you are running
it on.
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