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From: Todd C Miller <millert@courtesan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Linux "sudo" equiv. for BSDi
Date: 6 Feb 1997 00:21:03 -0700
Organization: Courtesan Consulting
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Sender: millert@home.courtesan.com
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Reply-To: millert@courtesan.com (Todd C Miller)
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From the keyboard of gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu:
> As far as I know, sudo has nothing to do with linux per se, it's
> just a general unix utility. I run version 1.3.1 on my BSDI systems.
> I think you can get it at cs.colorado.edu. When I compiled it, there
> were two minor glitches--it was basically a piece of cake:
Indeed, sudo has no affiliation whatsoever with Linux. Linux is
just one of the many platforms it runs on. Newer versions of
sudo compile on BSD/OS right out of the box.
- todd
For info on sudo please see http://www.courtesan.com/courtesan/products/sudo/
The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
ftp.courtesan.com in the directory /pub/sudo/. The current
distribution is cu-sudo.v1.5.3.tar.Z. Or, for browser folk:
ftp://ftp.courtesan.com/pub/sudo/cu-sudo.v1.5.3.tar.Z
For a list of ftp mirror sites, please see the above web page.
--
Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com