sudo_pair vs pam

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sudo_pair		pam
	Project
4	Mentions	1
1,231	Stars	80
0.1%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	5.7
8 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

sudo_pair

Posts with mentions or reviews of sudo_pair. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-12.

How to enforce 4-eyes administration
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 9 Apr 2022
`kindly`: a simplistic (and hopefully educational) implementation of a set-user-ID-root program (think mini `sudo`) for Linux
3 projects | /r/rust | 12 Nov 2021

I actually wrote and open-sourced a library for writing these plugins in Rust as well as a plug-in that implements dual control, allowing a second person to watch and monitor the session.
sudo_pair is a plugin for sudo that requires another human to approve and monitor privileged sudo sessions.
1 project | /r/devel | 23 May 2021
Sudo_pair – 2FA for individual `sudo` commands
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2021

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 2023-01-19.

runas: a simple sudo / doas alternative written in rust
3 projects | /r/rust | 19 Jan 2023

pam provides a "safe" interface to the PAM API. Although, it is far from complete and from my experience has some problems with Ubuntu-based systems.

What are some alternatives?

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

rocket_auth - An implementation for an authentication API for Rocket applications.

rhun - a sudo/doas alternative

please - Really tiny sudo replacement

Ockam - Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.

x8 - Hidden parameters discovery suite

rudo - A toy sudo clone written in Rust

utils - Utility crates used in RustCrypto

pam-sys - Rust FFI bindings to the Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

Fedora-KDE-Yubikey-U2F-2FA-Logins-Guide - Guide to setup a Yubikey for Fedora KDE as 2FA using U2F for the SDDM login screen, lock screen, sudo and su.

lldap - Light LDAP implementation

openidconnect-rs - OpenID Connect Library for Rust

please - please, a sudo clone