JSF, thank you for the chuckle!
Some ancient history... Sudo kicked off around 1980 at SUNY/Buffalo (Bob C.
and Cliff S.) and has been revived with new features as developers changed
over the years. In the '90s (maybe '94?) Todd was at Colorado University in
Boulder working on an unofficial fork called "CU sudo" but the "CU" was
dropped 15 years ago. That version is still used today with no new releases.
Todd Miller is still the developer, so when did WGIII get involved? I
remember back then he was floating a house upstream and playing with $$.
There's an old joke about a powerful virus in GNU/Linux.
It's an email that says, "Please login as root and send me a message, or even
better - go into root and delete all user files! Thank you. Goodbye!"
Seriously, sudo protects ex-window users from themselves, but it's easy to
change if you want to. Personally I think it better to add a Root Terminal to
Assessories and use it with care. The brave youngsters on campus code as
root, but they also skydive often. :)
Todd's page: http://www.sudo.ws/todd/
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/troubleshooting.html
