OpenPAM

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(s)	Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Developer(s)	NAI Labs
Stable release	Ximenia / June 27, 2023 (2023-06-27)
Repository	git.des.dev/desdotdev/openpam.git
Written in	C
Operating system	BSD, Linux, macOS et al.
License	Modified BSD
Website	http://www.openpam.org/

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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]