On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Devin Asay wrote:
Silly question... what is "sudo"?
No--good question. 'sudo' is a cool innovation in Darwin, the
modified BSD unix system that is the basic of Mac OS X. Apple (I
think) added it to ....
The rest of your answer is a good description of what sudo does -
but giving Apple any of the credit for it is bit off the mark. sudo
was created way back in BSD 4.1 days (sometime in the early '80s -
a bit before Darwin :-)
Your curmudgeonly historian,
Alex.
Always glad to get the straight story. I'm a latecomer to Unix, and
just had noticed that few of the *nix guys around here had ever heard
of sudo. So I leapt to the wrong conclusion.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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