macOS
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aws-keychain mit Homebrew installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für aws-keychain in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Uses macOS keychain for storage of AWS credentials
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- aws-keychain
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
aws-keychain is a macOS shell CLI for storing AWS IAM access keys in the macOS Keychain and checking one selected key out into `~/.aws/credentials` or into a command environment. Its README explicitly says it is no longer maintained and recommends aws-vault instead.
Projektgeschichte
The upstream README identifies the project as a 2014-2015 Paul Annesley MIT-licensed tool. It was written for the Mac OS X Keychain era of local AWS access-key management, before newer credential-process, SSO, and vault-style workflows became the dominant recommendation.
Adoptionsgeschichte
GitHub lists v3.0.0 as the latest release dated September 22, 2015 and describes the repository as succeeded by aws-vault. Homebrew analytics showed only 8 installs in 30 days, 10 in 90 days, and 56 in 365 days at the time of this batch, consistent with a historical package kept around for existing users.
Wie es verwendet wird
The command supports `add`, `ls`, `exec`, and `rm` operations for named IAM access keys in Keychain. The README warns about shell history when adding keys, supports interactive secret entry, and shows `aws-keychain exec personal aws s3 ls` as the intended safe command-running workflow.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
aws-keychain is a compact example of the local-secret-storage lineage that led to better-known tools such as aws-vault. It matters less as a current recommendation and more as a package archaeology marker for how macOS AWS users avoided plaintext credentials before first-class AWS SSO workflows.
Zeitleiste
- 2014-2015: README copyright period for aws-keychain.
- 2015: GitHub lists v3.0.0 as the latest release, with separate keychain file behavior.
- 2026: Homebrew formula metadata still tracks the v3.0.0 source archive.
Related projects
- aws-vault: the successor recommended by the aws-keychain README.
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
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
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.
Credential files
Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.
- macOS
~/.aws/credentials
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
aws-keychain | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version3.0.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:aws-keychain |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/pda/aws-keychain |
| Repository | https://github.com/pda/aws-keychain |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
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.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation