# macosvpn mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für macosvpn in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:macosvpn
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install macosvpn
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:macosvpn
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Create Mac OS VPNs programmatically
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/halo/macosvpn>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/halo/macosvpn>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- macosvpn (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.0.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

macosvpn is a Swift command-line tool for creating and deleting macOS VPN network services programmatically. The README documents support for L2TP over IPSec and Cisco IPSec configurations.

### Projektgeschichte

The official repository was created in July 2014. The README's own history section says the implementation began from research into Apple's networking discussions and practical examples for manipulating VPN configuration, shared secrets, traffic routing, and System Keychain entries.

The project packages that undocumented macOS VPN configuration knowledge into a CLI with create and delete commands. Its README emphasizes that administrator privileges are required because VPN passwords are stored in the System Keychain, and it explicitly chooses sudo over a separate HelperTool.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

macosvpn is distributed through Homebrew according to both the README and the batch input, and the README also points users to compiled GitHub release binaries. Repository metadata captured during this run showed several hundred GitHub stars and dozens of forks, indicating durable adoption among Mac administrators and automation users.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is `sudo macosvpn create --l2tp <name> --endpoint <host> --username <user> --password <password> --sharedsecret <secret>` or the Cisco IPSec variant. The README also documents flags such as `--force`, `--split`, disconnect behavior options, repeated arguments for creating multiple VPNs, and `macosvpn delete` for removing one or more services.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

macosvpn is significant because VPN profiles are often part of fleet setup, CI test machines, and repeatable laptop provisioning, but macOS historically made this hard to automate with plain shell tools. A Homebrew-installable CLI gives package nerds a way to put VPN setup next to the rest of a bootstrap script.

### Zeitleiste

- 2014: Official GitHub repository created.
- 2017: 0.3.x releases covered macOS High Sierra.
- 2019: 1.0.0 release published for macOS Catalina.
- 2022: 2.0.0 Ventura release published.

### Related projects

- The README mentions Apple's SystemConfiguration preferences, the System Keychain, sudo, Xcode builds, and related helper libraries Moderator and PrettyColors.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/halo/macosvpn>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/halo/macosvpn/releases>
- <https://github.com/halo/macosvpn>
- <https://github.com/halo/macosvpn#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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

- macOS: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

## Credential files

- macOS: /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/macosvpn.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/macosvpn.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
