Commercial Support Now Available For Sudo

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."

Comments

Re:Huh?

[AlXtreme]

1. Write easy yet useful tool
2. Add commercial support for people too lazy to RTFM
3. Submit to slashdot
4. Profit!

wait a minute...

Now announcing commercial support for ls, du, df

[DavidNWelton]

Hi,

DedaSys is proud to announce our exclusive commercial support program for the ls, du, and df utilities.

These time-tested tools just got better with the backing of a consulting and training organization that can adapt them to your enterprise disk management needs.

But wait, that's not all, order now and you'll receive documentation for all three at *no extra charge*.

http://dedasys.com/

Who is this 'Todd Miller' you speak of?

[tod_miller]

Todd Miller (the sudo maintainer for the last 10+ years) has decided to offer commercial support.

Have I? I wish I had a paypal account and hope some /. would throw a couple nickles my way accidentally :-)

I think I should take him through the courts for some patent violation or something!

He might be older than me and cite prior art though!

(from back when the web was young, but I'm dating myself...)

From his site, either he is older than me, or he has unusual tastes!