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Install connect with Homebrew, Nix, scoop, winget

Provides SOCKS and HTTPS proxy support to SSH. Version 1.106 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#connect.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install connect

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#connect

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/co/connect/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/connect

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/connect.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Adobe.AdobeConnect -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Adobe.AdobeConnect · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Provides SOCKS and HTTPS proxy support to SSH

Commands and aliases

  • connect

history

Project history and usage

connect, upstreamed as ssh-connect/connect.c, is a small proxy relay intended for OpenSSH ProxyCommand use. It lets SSH cross SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxies without embedding those proxy mechanisms in OpenSSH itself.

Project history

The official README explains the origin plainly: OpenSSH delegated proxying to the ProxyCommand mechanism, and connect.c was made for that purpose. The tool stayed intentionally small, portable, and independent from OpenSSH.

Adoption history

The package persists because corporate and campus networks still put SSH behind SOCKS or HTTPS proxies. Input metadata lists it for Homebrew, Nix, and Scoop, which fits its cross-platform C design.

How it is used

Users normally compile or install the single connect binary and reference it from ~/.ssh/config with a ProxyCommand line. The README documents SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, SOCKS5, HTTP CONNECT, proxy credentials, debug mode, and local socket relay behavior.

Why package nerds care

connect is packaging old-school Unix glue: one C file, one binary, and one exact job. Its significance is that it packages an OpenSSH extension pattern rather than a standalone network service.

Timeline

  • 2000s: README-era revision strings and tags show a long-lived single-purpose C utility.
  • 2026: Input package metadata still lists connect in multiple package managers.

Related projects

  • OpenSSH ProxyCommand is the interface connect is designed to serve.
  • SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT proxies are the network mechanisms it relays through.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:http,ssh

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

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

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
~/.ssh/config

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
connectexecutableindexed executableDiscovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.106
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:connect
Version1.106
Package managerHomebrew
Homepagehttps://github.com/gotoh/ssh-connect
Repositoryhttps://github.com/gotoh/ssh-connect
Bottlenot recorded
Servicenone declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

connect

nix profile install nixpkgs#connect
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Connect
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/connect/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/connect

scoop install main/connect
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Connect
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/connect.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

Adobe.AdobeConnect

winget install --id Adobe.AdobeConnect -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Connect
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Adobe.AdobeConnect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
winget95%

CyberHive.Connect

winget install --id CyberHive.Connect -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Connect
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: CyberHive.Connect from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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