Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install envchain

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#envchain

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/en/envchain/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Secure your credentials in environment variables

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

envchain

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

envchain is a security-focused CLI for storing secret environment variables in the macOS Keychain or a D-Bus Secret Service provider, then exposing them only for explicitly launched commands.

Projektgeschichte

The README positions envchain as a response to the common practice of putting credentials such as AWS access keys in shell initialization files. Instead of writing those secrets to `.bashrc` or `.zshrc`, envchain stores them in a secure vault under namespaced entries.

The project supports macOS Keychain and Linux Secret Service backends such as GNOME Keyring and KeePassXC. Its documented platform requirements include macOS versions from the OS X era and Linux systems with readline, libsecret, and D-Bus Secret Service support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

envchain is a niche but established package-manager tool. Its README documents Homebrew installation, and Homebrew formula analytics showed hundreds of annual installs during this enrichment run. The input package facts also list Nix packaging.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users create a namespace with `envchain --set NAMESPACE ENV ...`, enter secret values interactively, and then run commands as `envchain namespace command`. The tool injects only the variables from the requested namespace into that child process.

Multiple namespaces can be combined, which supports workflows such as separating AWS credentials from chatbot or service credentials while still composing them for a particular command.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

envchain is part of a family of small Unix secret-handling wrappers that try to make environment variables less dangerous without changing the tools that consume them. Its package value is in bridging native desktop secret stores with ordinary CLI workflows.

Zeitleiste

2010s: envchain documents OS X Keychain support and later Linux Secret Service support.
2010s: Homebrew installation is documented in the upstream README.
2020s: The tool remains packaged as a small credential wrapper for macOS and Linux.

Related projects

envchain relates to macOS Keychain, GNOME Keyring, KeePassXC, libsecret, and the D-Bus Secret Service specification.
It overlaps with dotenv-style workflows, but stores values in platform secret stores rather than in project files.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 10 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`envchain`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version1.1.0

Manager aktualisiert

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv1.1.0

https://github.com/sorah/envchain

InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:envchain
Version	1.1.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/envchain
Homepage	https://github.com/sorah/envchain
Repository	https://github.com/sorah/envchain
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/sorah/envchain#readme
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/sorah/envchain/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.0.tar.gz
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	envchain
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

envchain

nix profile install nixpkgs#envchain

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Envchain

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/en/envchain/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/envchain.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

envchain mit Homebrew, Nix installieren