Welcome to JPam

Overview

JPam is a Java-PAM bridge. PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a standard security architecture used on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX and other Unix systems. JPam is the missing link between the two.

JPAM permits the use of PAM authentication facilities by Java applications running on those platforms.

These facilities include:

  • account
  • auth
  • password
  • session

It features JAAS and direct APIs, support for most Unix OSs and architectures and much more...

JPam is available under an Apache open source license and is actively developed, maintained and supported.

Latest News

8 June 2007: JPAM 1.1 released

This is a maintenance release which fixes issue 1707044 where JPAM causes JDK crashes on lots of machines. The fix is to roll back the 1.0 fix for expired accounts.

16 April 2007: JPAM 1.0 released

JPam is available and should run on Linux x86, Linux x86_64, Mac OS X, Solaris and HP-UX. It has been tested on Linux x86 and x86_64 and on Mac OS X PPC and Intel.

The release fixes one major bug with expired accounts and a few minor bugs. See http://jpam.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html for details.

JPam has been used in production systems for several years now. With this release it should be considered stable.

15 February 2007: Website upgraded and 1.0 coming

The JPam website has been upgraded to make it more useable. It is built using Maven, although the core build is still Ant based. Also a new mailing list jpam-list@lists.sourceforge.net has been added. This is the preferred support mechanism. In addition the documentation is now available as a PDF which may be printed.

More news...