zlaxy / sshch

Ssh connection manager

SSH connection and aliases manager with curses and command line interface

sshch is released under DWTWL 2.55 license

sshch compatible with pyhon2 and python3, no additional libraries are required

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Installing

You can install a release version from pip:

pip install sshch

Manual installation from the package or git repository also available:

To install for all users:

sudo python setup.py install

To install just for current user:

mkdir ~/.local/bin
cp sshch/sshch ~/.local/bin/

Using

To run curses interface:

sshch

To run command line help:

sshch -h

For exit from current ssh session press Ctrl+D.

Additional Features

• If you want to use unsafe 'password' feature you must install sshpass first.
• If you want to use bash autocompletion function with sshch, copy autocompletion script to /etc/bash_completion.d/:

sudo cp completion/sshch_bash_completion.sh /etc/bash_completion.d/sshch

(changes will come into effect with new bash session)

• If you want to use zsh autocompletion:

1. Place File in a Directory where ZSH can find it

   -> Search Path is Stored in $fpath

   -> echo $fpath

2. Rename File to '_sshch'

sshch's Issues

how does grouping work?

Not mentioned in the readme and on -h. And quite confused for its use. Because I have several server clusters.
How do I add an alias to a group?
Or, what is the correct sshch.conf syntax for group members?
What is the difference between the host that has or not in the group in the sshch window?
Will the member group also be in bash autocompletion?

Thank you for developing such this great tool 👍

Unable to start sshch, if folder ~/.config doesn't exist

sshch/sshch/sshch

Line 791 in ba9fa30

open(conf_file, 'w')

Start without ~/.config folder returns
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/sshch", line 791, in
open(conf_file, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/.config/sshch.conf'

Might help:
conf_dir = os.path.expanduser("~") + '/.config'
if not os.path.exists(conf_dir):
os.makedirs(conf_dir)

Issue running a command on multiple hosts in curses mode

Firstly, thanks for a neat tool.

Secondly, when in curses mode I select multiple aliases then press 'c' I enter a command that I expect to run on the hosts that I had selected, however the command is executed on the localhost.

Not sure if it the correct fix, but I changed line 266 from:
ConnectAlias(alias, command)
to:
ConnectAlias(alias.split()[0], command)

The variable alias at this point contains the alias and group, this fails to resolve.

Thanks
Stuart

` character in password causes error

Returns below error if password includes ` character:

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

No issue, just a thank you!

Just wanted to leave a short "thank you" for your work! Most of the time I'm a terminal-only user and using sshch at work helps so much with managing ssh connections. No need to fiddle around with aliases anymore. Plus a decent overview of all my configured connections. Thank you!

host groups/tree

can you implement host groups or tree, not just plain list?

bad interpreter

bash: /d/Program Files/newpython/Scripts/sshch: d:\program: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
when running sshch after installing it with pip