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  1. Commercial Support Now Available For Sudo

    Developers · Security · · posted by timothy · from the looks-good-on-an-invoice-too dept. · 30 comments
    Mr. Christmas Lights writes "sudo has been free software for over 20 years and 'allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root or another user while logging the commands and arguments.' (Previous /. stories include how you can use it to distribute root access and also how Microsoft patents sudo - ummmm, have they heard of prior art?!?) While it will continue to be freely available, Todd Miller (the sudo maintainer for the last 10+ years) has decided to offer commercial support. For those thousands of Sysadmins out there who have benefited from sudo, here's your chance to thank Todd for a wonderful tool and also help support further development of sudo."

  2. Microsoft Patents sudo

    Yro · Patents · · posted by michael · from the you're-just-mad-you-didn't-think-of-it-first dept. · 663 comments
    Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."

  3. OpenBSD 3.2 Song Now Available

    Bsd · Bsd · · posted by michael · from the that's-right-we-said-'song' dept. · 157 comments
    Dan writes "Todd Miller says that the OpenBSD 3.2 song is now available via ftp. The OpenBSD 3.2 song lyrics are also available."