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Installer github-keygen avec Homebrew
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installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
Bootstrap GitHub SSH configuration
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- github-keygen
historique
Historique du projet et usages
github-keygen is a small Perl utility by Olivier Mengue for bootstrapping and maintaining OpenSSH configuration for GitHub. It creates a dedicated GitHub SSH key, writes a dedicated SSH config section, and installs GitHub host fingerprints in a separate known-hosts file.
Historique du projet
The repository history begins with an initial release in May 2011. Its author-maintained README frames the tool as a one-shot wizard rather than a long-running daemon or library: users clone it, run it for a GitHub account, inspect the generated SSH configuration, and can remove the tool afterward.
The changelog shows the project tracking practical SSH and GitHub changes over time: stronger cipher choices in the 1.020 series, OpenSSH roaming mitigation in 1.101, generated-config versioning in 1.200, GitHub key comparison in 1.300, larger and then Ed25519 default keys in later releases, and post-quantum key-exchange list updates in 1.401.
Historique d'adoption
Adoption appears niche and security-oriented. The tool serves users who want repeatable GitHub SSH setup, multiple GitHub accounts, per-machine keys, host aliases, strict host checking, and conservative handling of an existing SSH config.
Modes d'utilisation
Practitioners run github-keygen with a GitHub username to generate or update SSH files under ~/.ssh. The generated setup gives GitHub its own key, known_hosts file, public-key-only authentication, strict host checking, and account-specific host aliases for Git remotes.
The README emphasizes local auditability: the script is readable Perl, writes configuration files rather than a resident service, and can check GitHub public endpoints to verify registered keys unless the offline flag is used.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
Its package value is in codifying a careful SSH setup that many developers otherwise perform by hand. That makes it a tiny but opinionated tool for users who maintain several GitHub identities or machines and prefer generated config over checklist-driven setup.
Chronologie
- 2011: Initial release appears in the repository history.
- 2012: v1.000 begins the tagged release stream.
- 2016: v1.101 adds OpenSSH roaming vulnerability mitigation.
- 2022: v1.306 changes default key size and removes older GitHub host-key algorithms.
- 2025: v1.400 switches new keys to Ed25519 by default.
Related projects
- github-keygen relates to OpenSSH, GitHub SSH authentication, Git for Windows, and GitHub's SSH key-management workflow.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Classificateur de risque
risque blue · confiance moyen · tool
Pourquoi
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signaux
- text:ssh
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 1 plateformes.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.ssh/config
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- Unix
~/.ssh/id_<github-account>@github
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
github-keygen | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire1.401
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev1.401
https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:github-keygen |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.401 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/github-keygen |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen#readme |
| Licence | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Archive source | https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen/archive/refs/tags/v1.401.tar.gz |
| Bibliothèques fournies par macOS | perl |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur all) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | github-keygen |
| 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 |
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piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment