# Installer assh avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de assh pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:assh
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install assh
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install assh
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/assh/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#assh
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/assh/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:assh
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.17.3
- **Résumé source:** Advanced SSH config - Regex, aliases, gateways, includes and dynamic hosts
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://v1.manfred.life/assh/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/moul/assh>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-25T14:18:26-04:00
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- assh (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.17.3
## Historique du projet et usages

assh is a Go-based SSH configuration helper formerly known as Advanced SSH Config. Its niche is not replacing OpenSSH, but generating and wrapping OpenSSH configuration so regular SSH-dependent tools can use richer host aliases, regex-like matching, gateways, includes, templates, Graphviz output, JSON output, and YAML configuration.

### Historique du projet

The public GitHub repository dates to 2011 and the official project page describes the rename from Advanced SSH Config to assh. The README frames the tool as a transparent wrapper around SSH: lib-ssh uses assh as a ProxyCommand, so the generated behavior works through normal ssh, scp, rsync, git, and desktop tools that rely on SSH rather than through a separate protocol stack.

The project grew around pain points in large SSH estates: gateway chaining, dynamic hostnames, inherited host templates, generated known-host entries, and automatic regeneration of ~/.ssh/config. Its README also notes that OpenSSH 7.3 later gained native Include support, which is useful context for package maintainers because some early assh value moved into the base OpenSSH feature set while assh kept broader YAML/gateway/template behavior.

### Historique d'adoption

assh sits in the package-manager culture of personal infrastructure tools: the supplied Homebrew facts also list MacPorts and Nix packaging. Its README and project page emphasize integration with standard SSH consumers rather than a new client, which made it useful to developers and operators who wanted one enriched configuration layer to affect many existing commands.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical use starts with ~/.ssh/assh.yml, optional split files under ~/.ssh/assh.d/*.yml, and generated ~/.ssh/config output. Package users mostly care about the executable because it can build or refresh OpenSSH config, graph the host topology, manage sockets, and let normal ssh invocations resolve aliases and gateway chains.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package nerds, assh is an example of a small Unix-style wrapper with outsized workflow impact: it compiles declarative YAML into OpenSSH-native config, keeps compatibility with existing SSH tooling, and exposes enough introspection output to make SSH inventories scriptable. Its config-path defaults are also important because installing the package can affect a user's core ~/.ssh/config workflow.

### Chronologie

- 2011: moul/assh repository created on GitHub.
- 2016: OpenSSH 7.3 added native Include support, later noted in assh's README as overlapping with one assh configuration feature.
- 2026: GitHub repository metadata showed continued activity and the README still documented assh as an SSH wrapper/config generator.

### Related projects

- OpenSSH provides the ssh client, ~/.ssh/config, and ProxyCommand behavior that assh generates around.
- Graphviz is used by assh for host graph output.
- Other SSH inventory and config-management tools overlap with assh's generated-configuration use case, but assh's official docs emphasize staying compatible with ssh, scp, rsync, git, and lib-ssh consumers.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/moul/assh>
- <https://github.com/moul/assh#readme>
- <https://v1.manfred.life/assh>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour assh. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.



## 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

- Unix: ~/.ssh/assh.yml, ~/.ssh/assh.d/*.yml, /etc/assh.yml, ~/.ssh/config
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - assh: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/assh/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - assh: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/assh/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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