OpenPAM

{{Short description|BSD-licensed implementation of PAM}}

{{Infobox software

| name = OpenPAM

| developer = NAI Labs

| author = Dag-Erling Smørgrav

| license = Modified BSD

| latest release version = Zingiber

| latest release date = {{release date|2025|05|31}}

| programming language = C

| operating system = BSD, Linux, macOS et al.

| website = http://www.openpam.org/

}}

{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

OpenPAM is a BSD-licensed implementation of PAM used by FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD[http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pam§ion=ANY PAM manual page of DragonFly BSD] and macOS (starting with Snow Leopard),{{cite news

|title = Latest Snow Leopard Build (10A190) Now Available [Seed Notes]

|url = http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/10/25/latest-snow-leopard-build-10a190-now-available-seed-notes/

|publisher = World of Apple

|date = 2008-10-25

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081104040702/http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/10/25/latest-snow-leopard-build-10a190-now-available-seed-notes/

|archive-date = 2008-11-04

}}

and offered as an alternative to Linux PAM in certain Linux distributions^[which?].

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{{Clarify|date=March 2010}} of their DHS-funded Open Source Hardening Project, which tracks bugs found in open-source software by Coverity's Prevent static program analysis tool.{{cite press release

| title = Coverity Venture with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Resolves Quality Issues and Potential Security Vulnerabilities in 11 Major Open-Source Projects

| publisher = Coverity, Inc.

| date = 2008-01-08

| url = http://www.coverity.com/html/press_story54_01_08_08.html

| access-date = 2008-01-13 }}{{cite web

| last = Smørgrav

| first = Dag-Erling

| title = Coverity scans of OpenPAM

| date = 2008-01-13

| url = http://blog.des.no/2008/01/coverity-scans-of-openpam.html

| access-date = 2009-09-23 }} On 23 September 2009, OpenPAM was promoted to Rung 3, along with Ruby, Samba and Tor.{{cite press release

| title =Coverity Announces the State of Open Source Software Integrity

| publisher = Coverity, Inc.

| date = 2009-09-23

| url = http://www.coverity.com/html/press/coverity_open_source_integrity.html

| access-date = 2009-09-23 }}