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tailscale / pam

pam

An experimental, work-in-progress PAM module for Tailscale

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
146GitHub stars
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What it is

An experimental, work-in-progress PAM module for Tailscale

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-11-10 00:18:00 UTC to 2022-06-23 00:27:53 UTC.

012021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2022

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Dec 20212021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20222022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> 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 ove
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r 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. :)
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