Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of History


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Timestamp:
Dec 18, 2011, 3:15:24 PM (10 years ago)
Author:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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  • History

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     3OpenPAM was developed by Dag-Erling Smørgrav (initially as an employee of !ThinkSec), with occasional and much-appreciated contributions from [http://svn.des.no/svn/openpam/trunk/CREDITS a number of other people].  Development started in early 2002 with funding from what was then Network Associates Laboratories, 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.
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     5The attendant OpenSSH work was a direct continuation of an earlier effort by !ThinkSec's Eivind Eklund, which was funded by the now-defunct Norwegian ISP Enitel.
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     7Dag-Erling's mandate was initially to maintain FreeBSD's [http://kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ Linux-PAM] port and its existing set of PAM modules, develop additional PAM modules, and add PAM support to FreeBSD's [http://www.openssh.org/ OpenSSH] port.  In that context, OpenPAM was intended as a testing and validation framework for PAM applications and modules.  However, due to fundamental architectural flaws in Linux-PAM and its extremely poor code quality, the decision was made to develop OpenPAM into a full-fledged PAM implementation.
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     9A number of features, such as module option handling, credential borrowing and ready-made conversation functions, were added to minimize code duplication in modules and applications.  With a few intentional exceptions, these extensions are clearly marked as such.
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     11OpenPAM replaced Linux-PAM in FreeBSD in March, 2002.  The first official FreeBSD release to ship with OpenPAM was FreeBSD 5.1 in June, 2003 (5.0, which also included OpenPAM was a “technological preview”).
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     13The first official NetBSD release with OpenPAM was NetBSD 3.0 in December, 2005.
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     15Apple started the transition to OpenPAM in 2008; the first MacOS X release to ship with OpenPAM was MacOS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” in August, 2009.
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     17The OpenSSH PAM integration code which was developed in conjunction with OpenPAM was adopted by the [http://www.openssh.org/portable.html OpenSSH-portable] maintainers in 2003 and has been included in OpenSSH-portable since 3.7p1.