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+This is my clone of Jiwu Liu's sshsudo project from http://code.google.com/p/sshsudo/. 
+For the time being, the purpose is mainly to keep a public copy of the changes I am making to make it usable on modern OS X (Mountain Lion) Macs that do not nicely support the sshpass authentication.
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+It is possible that this will result in this being the future main copy of the original project, as Jiwu Liu has offered me to take over maintainance.
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