pam_basesystem(8)

pam_basesystem8

Basesystem pam module

Overview

The BaseSystem PAM module facilitates unlocking FileVault in BaseSystem. This allows technologies like OpenSSH to unlock the FileVault protected data volumes using a username and password.

Releases

6 releases since macOS 26.0; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 26.0–26.1
  2. 26.2–26.5

History

This module first appeared in macOS 26 Tahoe.

From pam_modules 217.100.6 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.