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OpenPAM
Original authorDag-Erling Smørgrav
DeveloperNAI Labs
Stable release
Zingiber / May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31)
Written inC
Operating systemBSD, Linux, macOS et al.
LicenseModified BSD
Websitehttp://www.openpam.org/
Repository
  • git.des.dev/desdotdev/openpam.git

OpenPAM is a BSD-licensed implementation of Pluggable Authentication Module (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.

Software

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 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]

References

  1. ↑ PAM manual page of DragonFly BSD
  2. ↑ "Latest Snow Leopard Build (10A190) Now Available [Seed Notes]". World of Apple. 25 October 2008. Archived from the original on 4 November 2008.
  3. ↑ "Coverity Venture with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Resolves Quality Issues and Potential Security Vulnerabilities in 11 Major Open-Source Projects" (Press release). Coverity, Inc. 8 January 2008. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2008.
  4. ↑ Smørgrav, Dag-Erling (13 January 2008). "Coverity scans of OpenPAM". Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  5. ↑ "Coverity Announces the State of Open Source Software Integrity" (Press release). Coverity, Inc. 23 September 2009. Archived from the original on 27 September 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
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