Barrapunto

> 6,775,781. Administrative security systems and methods, o ejecución de comandos root por usuarios normales.

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Abstract

A computer such as a network appliance executes an administrative security process configured to run under an administrative privilege level. Having an administrative privilege level, the administrative security process can initiate administrative functions in an operating system function library. A user process executing under a non-administrative privilege level can initiate a particular administrative function that the process would not otherwise be able to initiate by requesting that the administrative security process initiate the function. In response to a request to initiate a particular function from a process with a non-administrative privilege level, the administrative security process determines whether the requesting process is authorized to initiate the particular administrative function based on information accessed in a data store.
 
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Filed: July 20, 2000
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Mmmmmh [wikipedia.org]...

sudo was originally written by Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer around 1980 at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo.

20 anyos... De ahi a decir que son unos retrasados...

Poquísimas, no sé como acabó la cosa (me parece que concediéncole la patente), pero recuerdo un caso curioso de hace un par de años: EL PATENTÓN [laflecha.net]

Imagino que esta será una de las 200 y pico no?