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It's not GNU's `sudo`, it's under an ISC-style license, and is maintained by an OpenBSD developer, so it's closer to "BSD's sudo" (though OpenBSD has been shipp

It's not GNU's `sudo`, it's under an ISC-style license, and is maintained by an OpenBSD developer, so it's closer to "BSD's sudo" (though OpenBSD has been shipping `doas` instead for a little while now).

arp242 6y ago
sudo even predates GNU by several years.
- riffraff 6y ago
  wow, I never realized sudo is from 1980[0]! I thought it was a product of the late '90s. It's actually incredible it has managed to stay around this long. [0] https://www.sudo.ws/history.html https://www.sudo.ws/history.html
  - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
    Pffft, `sed` is from 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed And `ed` dates from 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
    - riffraff 6y ago
      ah, yes, but those _felt_ as old as dirt. On the other side, I remember howtos/manuals/READMEs in the early '00s referring to su(1) and only sometimes saying "..these days you should be using sudo(8)", so it always felt like something "new" :)