A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
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Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#2more easy to write bash aliases like alias ssh-web="ssh username@host" and you take bash completion support
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#3more easy to write bash aliases like alias ssh-web="ssh username@host" and you take bash completion support
There is bash completion for ssh.
Its included as part of the bash-completion package on most distributions of linux.
Its got extremely good completion support for hostnames
It has the added advantage of also auto-completing for scp.
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#4What does this add over just editing ~/.ssh/config with $EDITOR?
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#5more easy to write bash aliases like alias ssh-web="ssh username@host" and you take bash completion support
you can override some of the ssh options if you use it with sshconfig.
example ssh config: Host vps hostname 1.1.1.1 port 22 identityfile /home/emre/.ssh/vps.pub
If you want to override stuff, just do it like ssh vps -p 99.
And there is bash completion support with ssh, too. try it.
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Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#6I hate to be snarky but having read through the code this really isn't a big thing. It's a tool for people that can't use .ssh/config.
Manage your SSH like a boss? Perhaps, but only in the pointy-haired can't-read-man-ssh_config boss sense of the word.
For those that don't want to install a script and would prefer to understand the tools they already have try this:
http://nerderati.com/2011/03/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-...
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#7Honest question:
Why is this preferable to using:
vim/emacs/subl/nano ~/.ssh/config ?
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#8What does this add over just editing ~/.ssh/config with $EDITOR?
Nothing. Maybe just getting a list of host entries in a clean way.
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#9I can see this being useful if you have lots of keys and the server kicks you when you try too many of them, but in theory you really shouldn't need more than one key.
Re: A command line tool to manage your ssh connections
#10I read through the readme and I couldn't figure out how this is an improvement over ssh_config(5), other than adding Yet Another Dependency.