Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-07-19 11:16, Joachim Str?mbergson <watchman at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> (I've Googled around a bit, but failed to find much previous posts about
> this though I'm sure it has been discussed...)
>
> Have anybody (in core etc) considered adding a sudo implementation to
> thr FreeBSD base system. At least for me, sudo is an important part of
> implementing good security policy in FreeBSD.
>
> Yes, it is available as a port, but in a similar fashion of for example,
> isn't sudo important enough to be included as an imported tool in the
> base system?
>
> My thought was to sync/import the sudo implementation from OpenBSD. Bad
> idea?

Maybe not so bad if the OpenBSD version of sudo has useful enhancements
of any sort (i.e. has gone through a thorough security audit, or it
includes features that are not available through the Ports version,
or if the OpenBSD sudo uses a BSD and not an ISC-style license).

- Giorgos