X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=HISTORY;h=f9a12b2c38a80e3200914131d4cbda7bc23d5643;hb=057153afc0fad0743857437b2526239acad86a74;hp=a8ba0b48715fc111a088d4dab39f9d954ccaec77;hpb=c2b0b328d4a66431e671fb26b47997033feb5e29;p=debian%2Fsudo diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index a8ba0b4..f9a12b2 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -1,45 +1,49 @@ -A Brief history of sudo(8): - -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 -of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and -Trent Hein. - -In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo -with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm -called "The Root Group". This version was later released under the -GNU public license. - -In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for -some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version -1.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems. The -"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from -"The Root Group". - -In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in -his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his -consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting. Courtesan remains committed -to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as -continued development of the sudo 1.x code base. - -In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has -been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 -(the original authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo -no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is -available with a BSD-style license. - -In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial -support and enhancements to the sudo community. +A brief history of sudo: + +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 Usenet newsgroup in December of 1985. + +In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released an enhanced version of sudo. +For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful of folks at +CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and Trent Hein. + +In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo with an +enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm called "The Root +Group". This version was later released under the GNU public license. + +In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for some time, +Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version 1.3) with bug fixes +and support for more operating systems. The "CU" was added to differentiate +it from the "official" version from "The Root Group". + +In 1995, a new parser for the sudoers file was contributed by Chris Jepeway. +The new parser was a proper grammar (unlike the old one) and could work with +both sudo and visudo (previously they had slightly different parsers). + +In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in his spare +time, moved distribution of sudo from a CU-Boulder ftp site to his domain, +courtesan.com. + +In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has been no +formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991 (the original +authors now work elsewhere). As of version 1.6, Sudo no longer contains any +of the original "Root Group" code and is available under an ISC-style +license. + +In 2001, the sudo web site, ftp site and mailing lists were moved from +courtesan.com to the sudo.ws domain (sudo.org was already taken). + +In 2005, Todd rewrote the sudoers parser to better support the features that +had been added in the past ten years. This new parser removes some +limitations of the previous one, removes ordering constraints and adds +support for including multiple sudoers files. sudo, in its current form, is maintained by: - Todd Miller + Todd Miller Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs. +