No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-pam has 2.5M monthly downloads and 119 GitHub stars. Version 2.0.2, first published in 2014.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2022.
It is used by 12 tracked packages, including pam, rebasehelper and muxplex.
GitHub topics include linux, pam and pam-authentication.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
43
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
206 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,487,336
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
•
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,487,336
Stars
119
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
72,112
Month daily avg
82,911
Momentum
-13.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1572 days ago
Total releases
7
Releases/year
0.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
11
Monthly downloads
2,487,336
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
51
Issue Burden
58.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1365d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
61.8K
macOS
10
Windows
7
Python Versions
3.12
95.1%
58.7K
3.10
2.4%
1.5K
3.13
1.1%
659
3.9
1.0%
639
3.11
0.3%
208
Top Countries
1.
US
59.0K
US
2.
CA
2.1K
CA
3.
IE
360
IE
4.
HK
72
HK
5.
DE
67
DE
6.
SG
28
SG
7.
AU
26
AU
8.
GB
26
GB
9.
IN
25
IN
10.
FR
16
FR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
First Release
August 3, 2014
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
7
Contributors
11
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
David Ford
Python Versions
2
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh