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Install mpssh with Homebrew, dnf

Mass parallel ssh. Version 1.3.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install mpssh

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Mass parallel ssh

Commands and aliases

  • mpssh

history

Project history and usage

mpssh, short for Mass Parallel Secure Shell, is a small parallel-SSH administration tool by Nikolay Denev. Its README carries a 2005-2015 copyright notice and describes the program as connecting to many hosts from a hosts file, running the same command on all of them, and prefixing each output line with the hostname that produced it. GitHub tags show the 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 releases in September 2012, a 1.3.1 tag in January 2013, and 1.3.3 in June 2014.

Project history

The tool is deliberately thin: it executes the OpenSSH ssh binary directly, can scp a local script to each remote host before execution, supports per-host usernames and ports, host labels, output files, connection delays, and a configurable number of parallel ssh processes. It depends on existing passwordless authentication such as public keys or Kerberos rather than managing credentials itself.

How it is used

mpssh sits in the old-school sysadmin niche alongside pssh, pdsh, and ad hoc shell loops: one command, many machines, minimal state. It is useful when the operator already has SSH trust configured and wants bounded parallelism, host-labeled output, and simple host grouping without adopting a configuration-management system.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:ssh

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
mpsshcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.3.3
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.3.3

https://github.com/ndenev/mpssh

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:mpssh
Version1.3.3
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mpssh
Homepagehttps://github.com/ndenev/mpssh
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ndenev/mpssh
Upstream docshttps://github.com/ndenev/mpssh#readme
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://github.com/ndenev/mpssh/archive/refs/tags/1.3.3.tar.gz
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namempssh
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

dnf95%

mpssh 1.3.3-26.fc44

Parallel ssh tool

https://github.com/ndenev/mpssh

sudo dnf install mpssh
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mpssh
  • 3 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mpssh
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mpssh from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • apt-daterShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, ssh, system.
  • dshShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, ssh, system.
  • kanifShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, ssh, system.
  • orgalorgShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, remote-administration, ssh, system.
  • rexShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, ssh, system.
  • sshfsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, ssh, system.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • 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