The latest verion of sudo is 1.7.2p1 The "authoritative" sudo ftp site is ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/sudo/ and there is a web page at http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/ File: Description: ===================== =========================================== sudo.tar.gz Link to the current version of sudo sudo-1.7.2.tar.gz Sudo version 1.7.2 sudo-1.7.2p1.tar.gz Sudo version 1.7.2p1 sudo-1.7.2p1.patch.gz Patch to update sudo 1.7.2 to 1.7.2p1 Note that these archives are compressed with gzip, if you don't have a copy of gzip, download and build gzip-1.3.13.tar from the "misc" subdirectory. To unpack an archive, run: gzip -dc sudo-1.7.2p1.tar.gz | tar vxf -