pam VS headscale

Compare pam vs headscale and see what are their differences.

pam

An experimental, work-in-progress PAM module for Tailscale (by tailscale)

headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (by juanfont)
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pam

Posts with mentions or reviews of pam. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-22.
  • Tailscale SSH
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2022
    > I know it says it's linux-only right now, but is that client side or server only? Can my Windows users TailSSH into linux boxes?

    Linux-only on the server right. macOS support is kinda there (in git) but not entirely done and not included in the GUI builds. Windows server support is tracked in https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/4697.

    You can use any SSH client from any OS.

    > Would be cool if somehow it could wedge into sudo auth so you could login as a a user and sudo without password if allowed by ACLs

    Some of the start of that is in https://github.com/tailscale/pam

    > One thing that has prevented me from trying Tailscale, despite the great word on the street, is I can't figure out pricing, despite contacting sales. I'd like to run it on ~120 dev+stg+prod VMs, with 10 people (devs, testers, ops). I'd like every box to talk over tailscale directly, as an overlay network, but servers I hope aren't users, that'd get expensive fast. But I need more devices than 10/user. I presume "custom" would help with that but I got no reply from sales. We are probably too small fry. Now that I'm typing this, I realize I guess we could just buy ~15-20 users despite needing only 10.

    You only pay for unique humans, not tagged role account devices. I wonder if your email got eaten as spam or something. Email me (username at tailscale) and copy sales@ and I'll make sure somebody replies. But I don't think you need a custom plan.

    > I think I've resolved myself to setting up Nebula for the server overlay network, and using Tailscale for physical users, with a traditional firewall bridging them.

    Hey, if you've got something that works, stick with it. :)

  • The Surreal Horror of Pam
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2021

headscale

Posts with mentions or reviews of headscale. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pam and headscale you can also consider the following projects:

if-then-else - !!Con West 2019 talk

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

gossm - đź’»Interactive CLI tool that you can connect to ec2 using commands same as start-session, ssh in AWS SSM Session Manager

Netmaker - Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.

addon-tailscale - Tailscale - Home Assistant Community Add-ons

zero-ui - ZeroUI - ZeroTier Controller Web UI - is a web user interface for a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller.

netbird - Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.

ZeroTier - A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Nebula - A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security

firezone - Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable.

innernet - A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.

docker-cloudflare-ddns - A small amd64/ARM/ARM64 Docker image that allows you to use CloudFlare as a DDNS / DynDNS Provider.