OpenPAM
BSD-licensed implementation of PAM
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OpenPAM is a BSD-licensed implementation of PAM used by FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD[1] and macOS (starting with Snow Leopard),[2] and offered as an alternative to Linux PAM in certain Linux distributions[which?].
| OpenPAM | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Dag-Erling Smørgrav |
| Developer | NAI Labs |
| Stable release | Zingiber
/ May 31, 2025 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, macOS et al. |
| License | Modified BSD |
| Website | http://www.openpam.org/ |
| Repository | |
OpenPAM was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Dag-Erling Smørgrav and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
On 1 January 2008, OpenPAM was one of eleven projects selected by Coverity for promotion to Rung 2[clarification needed] of their DHS-funded Open Source Hardening Project, which tracks bugs found in open-source software by Coverity's Prevent static program analysis tool.[3][4] On 23 September 2009, OpenPAM was promoted to Rung 3, along with Ruby, Samba and Tor.[5]
