1A Brief history of sudo(8):
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3Sudo was first conceived and implemented by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff
4Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at
5SUNY/Buffalo.  It ran on a VAX-11/750 running 4.1BSD.  An updated
6version, credited to Phil Betchel, Cliff Spencer, Gretchen Phillips,
7John LoVerso and Don Gworek, was posted to the net.sources newsgroup
8in December of 1985.
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10In the Summer of 1986, Garth Snyder released and enhanced version
11of sudo. For the next 5 years, sudo was fed and watered by a handful
12of folks at CU-Boulder, including Bob Coggeshall, Bob Manchek, and
13Trent Hein.
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15In 1991, Dave Hieb and Jeff Nieusma wrote a new version of sudo
16with an enhanced sudoers format under contract to a consulting firm
17called "The Root Group".  This version was later released under the
18GNU public license.
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20In 1994, after maintaining sudo informally within CU-Boulder for
21some time, Todd Miller made a public release of "CU sudo" (version
221.3) with bug fixes and support for more operating systems.  The
23"CU" was added to differentiate it from the "official" version from
24"The Root Group".
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26In 1996, Todd, who had been maintaining sudo for several years in
27his spare time, brought sudo development under the umbrella of his
28consulting firm, Courtesan Consulting.  Courtesan remains committed
29to a free sudo and is sponsoring another sudo rewrite as well as
30continued development of the sudo 1.x code base.
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32In 1999, the "CU" prefix was dropped from the name since there has
33been no formal release of sudo from "The Root Group" since 1991
34(the original authors now work elsewhere).  As of version 1.6, Sudo
35no longer contains any of the original "Root Group" code and is
36available with a BSD-style license.
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38In 2004, Todd incorporated as GratiSoft, Inc. to provide commercial
39support and enhancements to the sudo community.
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41sudo, in its current form, is maintained by:
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43	Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
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45Todd continues to enhance sudo and fix bugs.
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