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Port details
pam_worker PAM authentication helper for use with
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Maintainer: bapt@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-01-14 11:18:07
Last Update: 2026-01-31 12:36:26
Commit Hash: f39915b
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://fossil.nours.eu/pam_worker
Description:
pam_worker utility is a helper program designed to perform PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) authentication for a given profile. It is intended to be used in combination with pam_exec(8) to allow non-setuid programs to perform authentication.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @(root,wheel,2755) bin/pam_worker
  2. share/man/man8/pam_worker.8.gz
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_worker-0.1_1/catalog.mk
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_worker-0.1_1/LICENSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/pam_worker-0.1_1/BSD2CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • pam_worker>0:security/pam_worker
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/security/pam_worker/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install security/pam_worker
  • pkg install pam_worker
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: pam_worker
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1768389075 SHA256 (pam_worker-0.1.tar.gz) = 0eee1a24d59d1d6d4d917a5b28b680dfe6049d4b0458b813e37935927c085c25 SIZE (pam_worker-0.1.tar.gz) = 2604

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
pam_worker
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FreeBSD:16:latest0.10.1n/a-n/an/a--
This port has no dependencies.
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
security_pam_worker
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://fossil.nours.eu/pam_worker/tarball/?r=0.1&name=./
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Number of commits found: 3

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.1_1
31 Jan 2026 12:36:26
commit hash: f39915b47b6f0b05f67a3399e9bec11363f2a800commit hash: f39915b47b6f0b05f67a3399e9bec11363f2a800commit hash: f39915b47b6f0b05f67a3399e9bec11363f2a800commit hash: f39915b47b6f0b05f67a3399e9bec11363f2a800 files touched by this commit
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
security/pam_worker: add missing setgid by default
0.1
14 Jan 2026 11:19:19
commit hash: 2a2ee6ca4e84ec5cea20443057346e1292714b30commit hash: 2a2ee6ca4e84ec5cea20443057346e1292714b30commit hash: 2a2ee6ca4e84ec5cea20443057346e1292714b30commit hash: 2a2ee6ca4e84ec5cea20443057346e1292714b30 files touched by this commit
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
security/pam_worker: fix bad copy/paste
14 Jan 2026 11:16:52
commit hash: 228c7fb65b07ba33718fed370308bdf874d02c08commit hash: 228c7fb65b07ba33718fed370308bdf874d02c08commit hash: 228c7fb65b07ba33718fed370308bdf874d02c08commit hash: 228c7fb65b07ba33718fed370308bdf874d02c08 files touched by this commit Sanity Test Failure Refresh
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) search for other commits by this committer
security/pam_worker: new port

PAM-modules is a collection of useful PAM modules and command line
utilities for checking PAM authentication and other management groups.

Number of commits found: 3