notbugAs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Want a good read? Try FreeBSD Mastery: Jails (IT Mastery Book 15)
Want a good monitor light? See my photosAll times are UTC
Ukraine
2024-11-06 Today brought in a new category: filesystems. Sadly, the website did not process it well. I am working on that. It may take a few days.
2024-11-07 Commit processing is halted. I have a fix for the new category. It is making its way through the system.
UPDATE: the backend is processing the original filesystems commit now. It should take about an hour.
UPDATE: as of 20:30 UTC, the filesystems commit has been processed. Commit processing is now up to date.
Port details
pam_helper Authenticate applications requiring PAM services
1.2 security on this many watch lists=9 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: marcus@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2008-08-09 07:57:59
Last Update: 2023-07-15 14:10:13
Commit Hash: 6799268
People watching this port, also watch:: dbus, libXdamage, libexif, xorg-fonts-truetype, libpciaccess
Also Listed In: sysutils
License: BSD2CLAUSE
Description:
Pam_helper is a small utility which allows non-PAM, or non-setuid applications to make use of PAM's authentication services. It was mainly created to allow gnome-screensaver to make use of PAM, but any application could use it. It accepts two arguments, the PAM service name, and a username. It reads the user's password from stdin.
cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
Expand this list (4 items)
Collapse this list.
  1. bin/pam_helper
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_helper-1.2/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_helper-1.2/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_helper-1.2/BSD2CLAUSE
Collapse this list.
Dependency lines:
  • pam_helper>0:security/pam_helper
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/security/pam_helper/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install security/pam_helper
  • pkg install pam_helper
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: pam_helper
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1689430133 SHA256 (pam_helper-1.2.tar.bz2) = c384e309cebe6e3678c821b1ff2a83104ee35de7dfcbba0bc653c11761fe2317 SIZE (pam_helper-1.2.tar.bz2) = 2245

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
pam_helper
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest1.21.21.11.21.2-1.1-
FreeBSD:13:quarterly1.21.21.11.21.21.21.21.2
FreeBSD:14:latest1.21.21.11.21.21.1-1.1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.21.2-1.21.21.21.21.2
FreeBSD:15:latest1.21.2n/a1.2n/a1.21.21.2
This port has no dependencies.
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. x11/xfce4-screensaver

Deleted ports which required this port:

Expand this list of 1 deleted port
  1. x11/gnome-screensaver*
  2. Collapse this list of deleted ports.
* - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
security_pam_helper
USES:
tar:bzip2 uidfix
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
Expand this list (1 items)
Collapse this list.
  1. http://www.marcuscom.com/pam_helper/
Collapse this list.

Number of commits found: 11

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.2
15 Jul 2023 14:10:13
commit hash: 6799268971899867fdd3faa8537174dbbef16747commit hash: 6799268971899867fdd3faa8537174dbbef16747commit hash: 6799268971899867fdd3faa8537174dbbef16747commit hash: 6799268971899867fdd3faa8537174dbbef16747 files touched by this commit
Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus) search for other commits by this committer
security/pam_helper: Fix build with -Werror
1.1
20 Jul 2022 14:22:56
commit hash: 857c05f8674c5f4c990f49f9d0fb7034ebd340fecommit hash: 857c05f8674c5f4c990f49f9d0fb7034ebd340fecommit hash: 857c05f8674c5f4c990f49f9d0fb7034ebd340fecommit hash: 857c05f8674c5f4c990f49f9d0fb7034ebd340fe files touched by this commit
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
security: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  <ports@c0decafe.net>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
  *  Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru>
  *  Alex Samorukov <samm@freebsd.org>
  *  Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex@foxybanana.com>
  *  Alexander Kriventsov <avk@vl.ru>
  *  Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above View all of this commit message)
1.1
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
1.1
18 Sep 2016 18:18:35
Revision:422402Original commit files touched by this commit
marcus search for other commits by this committer
Increase the length of the password.

Requested by:	Julien Picalausa <jpicalau@elmandria.com>
1.0
28 Nov 2014 21:51:59
Revision:373580Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Fix build on head
1.0
07 Sep 2014 17:20:03
Revision:367579Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Allow staging as a regular user
1.0
29 Jul 2014 21:43:18
Revision:363399Original commit files touched by this commit
adamw search for other commits by this committer
Convert some more USE_BZIP2 to USES=tar:bzip2

Approved by:	portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)
1.0
25 Sep 2013 00:54:09
Revision:328226Original commit files touched by this commit
bdrewery search for other commits by this committer
- Remove NO_STAGE as these have been tested to be safe

With hat:	portmgr
1.0
20 Sep 2013 22:55:26
Revision:327769Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
security)
1.0
03 Jul 2011 14:03:52
Original commit files touched by this commit
ohauer search for other commits by this committer
-remove MD5
1.0
09 Aug 2008 07:53:16
Original commit files touched by this commit
marcus search for other commits by this committer
Add pam_helper, a small utility which allows non-PAM or non-setuid
applications to make use of PAM's authentication services.

Number of commits found: 11