# Installer sslmate avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sslmate
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sslmate
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#sslmate
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:sslmate
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.10.0
- **Résumé source:** Buy SSL certs from the command-line
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://sslmate.com>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- sslmate (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.10.0
## Historique du projet et usages

SSLMate is a certificate-management service with a command-line client for buying, renewing, revoking, downloading, and configuring SSL/TLS certificates. Its package-manager identity is the rare commercial PKI workflow that intentionally feels like a Unix command.

### Historique du projet

The SSLMate 1 CLI reference describes sslmate as the command-line client for SSLMate, a service for purchasing and managing SSL certificates. The tool automates certificate busy work such as generating a private key, generating a CSR, building a certificate bundle, renewing certificates, and downloading renewed certificates from scripts or cron.

The current SSLMate help system presents the older Basic SSLMate service, the SSLMate command-line interface, APIv2, and newer SaaS-oriented surfaces such as sslmate-agent and APIv3. The changelog shows ongoing service evolution around certificate approval, API keys, DNS integrations, Cert Spotter, and Certificate Transparency search.

### Historique d'adoption

SSLMate's own homepage markets the service around automation and shows the terminal command sslmate buy www.example.com as a first-class product interaction. It also lists customer logos and testimonials, including users praising command-line certificate purchase.

The supplied package metadata shows Homebrew and Nix packaging. That limited but meaningful package footprint matches the tool's audience: administrators and developers who want certificate issuance and renewal to be scriptable from Unix-like systems.

### Modes d'utilisation

The CLI is organized into subcommands such as buy, renew, reissue, rekey, revoke, download, list, show, edit, test, mkconfig, retry-approval, and link. The link command writes API credentials to the personal SSLMate configuration file so later commands can run without prompting.

On startup the CLI reads /etc/sslmate.conf and ~/.sslmate when present, with the personal file overriding global options. The SSLMATE_CONFIG environment variable can point to a different personal configuration file, and profiles can produce alternate global configuration and certificate directories.

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

SSLMate matters to package nerds because it packages certificate issuance as an installable CLI, not just a web dashboard. That made it fit naturally into cron, configuration management, and server provisioning long before every certificate workflow was expected to be ACME-native.

It also shows why credential-file documentation matters in package databases: the same file can be both a user config and an API-key store, so package metadata should distinguish ordinary config from secret-bearing state.

### Chronologie

- 2014: SSLMate changelog feed identifies the service changelog namespace from 2014.
- 2021: SSLMate changelog records per-domain authorized CA configuration for Cert Spotter.
- 2022: SSLMate changelog records flexible API key permissions and prefixed API keys.
- 2023: SSLMate changelog records expanded Cert Spotter APIs, webhooks, DNS integrations, Slack notifications, and CT Search API improvements.
- 2024: SSLMate changelog records additional DNS integrations and changes driven by CA/Browser Forum certificate-approval policy.
- 2026: SSLMate changelog records simpler DNS approval record names.

### Related projects

- Related SSLMate surfaces include Cert Spotter, the Certificate Transparency Search API, sslmate-agent, APIv2, APIv3, and DNS provider integrations.
- The tool lives in the same operational space as ACME clients and certificate deployment automation, but SSLMate's official documentation frames it as a managed certificate purchasing and monitoring service with a CLI.

### Sources

- <https://sslmate.com/>
- <https://sslmate.com/help>
- <https://sslmate.com/help/changelog>
- <https://sslmate.com/help/reference/cli1>
- input source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- 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

- Unix: /etc/sslmate.conf, ~/.sslmate

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.sslmate
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - sslmate: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ss/sslmate/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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