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- This is Sudo version 1.7.0
-
- The sudo philosophy
- ===================
- Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
- to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few
- privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done.
-
- 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).
-
- 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/.
-
- If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
- the UPGRADE file.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- Building the release
- ====================
- Please read the installation guide in the `INSTALL' file before
- trying to build sudo.
-
- Copyright
- =========
- Sudo is distributed under an ISC-style license.
- Please refer to the `LICENSE' file included with the release for details.
-
- Mailing lists
- =============
- sudo-announce This list receives announcements whenever a new version
- of sudo is released.
- http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-announce
-
- sudo-users This list is for questions and general discussion about sudo.
- http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users
-
- sudo-workers This list is for people working on and porting sudo.
- http://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-workers
-
- 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
- a significant win.
-
- Mailing list archives are also available. See the mailing list web sites
- for the appropriate links.
-
- Web page
- ========
- There is a sudo web page at http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ 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/.
-
- 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
- it on.
-