keyring mit Homebrew installieren

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Befehle und Aliase

• keyring

Projektgeschichte

The project began as python-keyring-lib and later settled into the jaraco/keyring repository. A 2014 maintainer announcement moved hosting from Bitbucket to GitHub, preserving issues and source history while aligning development with GitHub and Travis CI workflows of that period.

The project steadily narrowed and modularized its backend surface. Less preferred or risky backends were split into keyrings.alt, while the main package concentrated on recommended system keyrings and a CLI/API that applications could call safely.

Adoptionsgeschichte

keyring became infrastructure in the Python packaging and developer-tools ecosystem because tools can use it for credentials without inventing their own password storage. PyPI release history, Read the Docs documentation, and downstream packages show a long-lived library with regular maintenance across Python and operating-system changes.

Wie es verwendet wird

Applications call keyring.set_password, get_password, or credential APIs, while users can invoke the keyring command to inspect or manage secrets. The package chooses a viable backend for the environment, and users can configure explicit backends through keyringrc.cfg when automatic selection is not enough.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

keyring is small but central because it connects Python packaging, CLIs, desktop secret stores, and enterprise artifact repositories. It is also a useful example of packaging security posture: plaintext and weaker backends were moved to an alternate package rather than silently remaining first-class defaults.

Zeitleiste

• 2014: The maintainer announced the move from Bitbucket to GitHub under jaraco/keyring.
• 2010s: The project supported the major desktop credential stores through a unified Python API.
• 2017: Legacy and less preferred backends were split toward keyrings.alt, reducing the default backend surface.
• 2024: v24 removed older macOS and utility modules while retaining the main credential-store API.
• 2025: v25 releases continued backend and CLI maintenance, including KWallet 6 support.

Related projects

• Related projects include keyrings.alt for alternate backends, SecretStorage/libsecret for Linux Secret Service integration, pywin32-ctypes for Windows credential access, KWallet bindings, pip/twine-style packaging clients, and cloud artifact-registry keyring plugins.

Quellen

• https://github.com/jaraco/keyring
• https://groups.google.com/g/python-keyring/c/m62BwNm5Wc8
• https://keyring.readthedocs.io/en/latest
• https://keyring.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html
• https://pypi.org/project/keyring/
• https://pypi.org/project/keyrings.alt/