# Installer dsh avec Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:dsh
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dsh
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install dsh
```

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

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install dsh
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: dsh from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:dsh
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.25.10
- **Résumé source:** Dancer's shell, or distributed shell
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- dsh (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.25.10
## Historique du projet et usages

dsh, Dancer's shell, is Junichi Uekawa's C implementation of a distributed shell wrapper for running rsh, remsh, or ssh commands over many Unix hosts.

### Historique du projet

The official page says dsh grew from the author's own Debian cluster administration needs: repeatedly writing ad hoc scripts for many hosts was inefficient, so a personal tool was polished into a public program. The page's HTML creation stamp is 2001-08-31, and its public download index carries a long 0.22 through 0.25 release stream.

By the 0.24.2 note dated 2003-08-26, the project had already dealt with portability and security-advisory review around its asprintf implementation. Later releases moved into the 0.25 series, with Homebrew packaging 0.25.10 from the upstream download area.

### Historique d'adoption

dsh's adoption is old-school Unix administration adoption: package-manager availability, config files in /etc and ~/.dsh, and use on clusters where the same command must run across many hosts. The official page says it was installed on many clusters and was also used by the related dmachinemon system.

Homebrew analytics showed only 71 installs over the preceding 365 days during this batch, which fits a mature, niche sysadmin utility rather than an actively trendy tool.

### Modes d'utilisation

The canonical usage is to put host lists or groups in text config files and run commands such as `dsh -a -c -- uname -a` or `dsh -g group -c -- command`. The tool also supports limiting the number of simultaneous connections, hierarchical invocation, and NIS netgroups.

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

dsh is package-nerd significant because it captures a pre-cloud cluster-management pattern: small C utilities, text host lists, rsh/ssh wrappers, and distro packaging did the work that later orchestration systems absorbed. It is also an example of a name collision family: several unrelated tools called dsh existed in Perl, C, Python, and AIX-compatible forms.

### Chronologie

- 2001-08-31: The official HTML page records its creation date.
- 2002: The official references section links Japanese research reports evaluating dsh.
- 2003-08-10: A Bugtraq security advisory about dsh was posted; the maintainer later explained why the checked implementation was not affected on common platforms.
- 2003-08-26: The official page documents the 0.24.2 security-review note.
- 0.25.10: The upstream download index and Homebrew formula identify 0.25.10 as the packaged stable release.

### Related projects

- dmachinemon is named by the official page as a system that used dsh extensively.
- The official related-work list points to other distributed-shell projects, including Perl dsh, another C dsh, and pydsh.
- ssh, rsh, and remsh are the remote-shell mechanisms dsh wraps.

### Sources

- <https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en>
- <https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/downloads/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dsh>


## Notes de sécurité

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** yellow / moyen
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## 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: /etc/dsh/dsh.conf, ~/.dsh/dsh.conf, /etc/dsh/machines.list, ~/.dsh/machines.list, /etc/dsh/group/groupname, ~/.dsh/group/groupname
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - dsh - 0.25.10-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: dsh from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | dancer's shell, or distributed shell | https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html
- Ubuntu apt - dsh - 0.25.10-1.6build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dsh from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | dancer's shell, or distributed shell | http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html
- MacPorts - dsh: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/dsh/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/dsh.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/dsh.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
