# Installer launch_socket_server avec Homebrew

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:launch_socket_server
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install launch_socket_server
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:launch_socket_server
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Résumé source:** Bind to privileged ports without running a server as root
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/mistydemeo/launch_socket_server>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/mistydemeo/launch_socket_server>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- launch_socket_server (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.0.0
## Historique du projet et usages

launch_socket_server is a small macOS utility for accepting connections on privileged ports without running the application server as root. It sits between launchd and an unprivileged server, proxying launchd-activated sockets to a Unix-domain socket or local TCP port.

### Historique du projet

The upstream repository was created on 2014-11-07 under Sam Stephenson's GitHub account and later appears in Homebrew metadata through Misty De Meo's maintained repository URL. The README is direct and narrow: the problem is binding ports below 1024 on OS X without root; the solution is to run the server through launch_socket_server.

### Historique d'adoption

Adoption appears niche and macOS-specific. Homebrew packages it as a single executable for users who want launchd socket activation to front an unprivileged development or local service process.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users create a launch daemon plist that has launchd listen on a privileged port, then configure launch_socket_server to start the real server as a less-privileged user and pass the socket path through LAUNCH_PROGRAM_SOCKET_PATH.

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

The package is interesting because it exposes a native macOS service-management pattern as a tiny command-line utility. It packages policy separation: let launchd own privileged binding, while application code runs without root.

### Chronologie

- 2014: GitHub repository created on 2014-11-07.
- 2014: Repository pushed activity recorded through 2014-11-10.
- 2020s: Homebrew metadata packages the tool as launch_socket_server.

### Related projects

- Related technologies include launchd, launch_activate_socket, Unix-domain sockets, local TCP proxying, and macOS launch daemon plists.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/launch_socket_server>
- <https://github.com/mistydemeo/launch_socket_server>
- <https://github.com/sstephenson/launch_socket_server>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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