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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by rincebrain on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:10PM (#25922129)
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).
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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by arp242 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:30PM (#25922747)
sudo even predates GNU by several years.
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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by riffraff on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:19AM (#25925269)
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

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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:47AM (#25928168)
Pffft, `sed` is from 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed

And `ed` dates from 1969: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

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Re:Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo by riffraff on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:40AM (#25938940)
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" :)

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