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{{Short description|BSD-licensed implementation of PAM}}
{{Infobox software
| name = OpenPAM
| developer = [[Intel Security|NAI Labs]]
| author = Dag-Erling Smørgrav
| license = [[BSD licenses#3-clause|Modified BSD]]
| latest release version = Zingiber
| latest release date = {{release date|2025|05|31}}
| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system = [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[Linux]], [[macOS]] et al.
| website = http://www.openpam.org/
}}
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
'''OpenPAM''' is a [[BSD licenses#3-clause|BSD-licensed]] implementation of [[Pluggable authentication module|PAM]] used by [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], [[DragonFly BSD]]<ref>[http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=pam&section=ANY PAM manual page of DragonFly BSD]</ref> and [[macOS]] (starting with [[Mac OS X Snow Leopard|Snow Leopard]]),<ref>{{cite news
 |title       = Latest Snow Leopard Build (10A190) Now Available &#91;Seed Notes&#93;
 |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
}}</ref>
and offered as an alternative to [[Linux PAM]] in certain [[Linux distributions]]<sup>[which?]</sup>.

OpenPAM was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Dag-Erling Smørgrav and [[Intel Security|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&nbsp;2{{Clarify|date=March 2010}} of their [[United States Department of Homeland Security|DHS]]-funded Open Source Hardening Project, which tracks bugs found in [[open-source software]] by Coverity's Prevent [[static program analysis]] tool.<ref>{{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|Coverity, Inc.]]
  | date = 2008-01-08
  | url = http://www.coverity.com/html/press_story54_01_08_08.html
  | access-date = 2008-01-13 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> On 23 September 2009, OpenPAM was promoted to Rung&nbsp;3, along with [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], [[Samba (software)|Samba]] and [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]].<ref>{{cite press release
  | title =Coverity Announces the State of Open Source Software Integrity
  | publisher = [[Coverity|Coverity, Inc.]]
  | date = 2009-09-23
  | url = http://www.coverity.com/html/press/coverity_open_source_integrity.html
  | access-date = 2009-09-23 }}</ref>

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