OpenPAM

OpenPAM

Original author(s)	Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Developer(s)	NAI Labs
Stable release	Hydrangea / December 21, 2007; 3 years ago (2007-12-21)
License	BSD License
Website	http://trac.des.no/openpam

OpenPAM is an implementation of PAM used by FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD^[1] and Mac OS X (starting with Snow Leopard),^[2] and offered as an alternative to Linux PAM in certain Linux distributions.

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 2008-01-08, 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 analysis tool.^[3][4] On 2009-09-23, 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. 2008-10-25. http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/10/25/latest-snow-leopard-build-10a190-now-available-seed-notes/. 
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.. 2008-01-08. http://www.coverity.com/html/press_story54_01_08_08.html. Retrieved 2008-01-13. 
4. ^ Smørgrav, Dag-Erling (2008-01-13). "Coverity scans of OpenPAM". http://blog.des.no/2008/01/coverity-scans-of-openpam.html. Retrieved 2009-09-23. 
5. ^ "Coverity Announces the State of Open Source Software Integrity" (Press release). Coverity, Inc.. 2009-09-23. http://www.coverity.com/html/press/coverity_open_source_integrity.html. Retrieved 2009-09-23.