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Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

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Post by loudtieblahblah »

shantnutiwari wrote: post #26
soco wrote: post #25

I'd love to see a replacement for PuTTY. The '90 shareware vibe for handling the saved sites or for setting the password/key options ruins my mood every time I have to use it (often enough). Ironically, all the few others I saw try their best to copy its look and feel...

On the latest windows , powershell comes with ssh built in. I dont use putty anymore, just open up powershell and ssh in Even better-- get WSL, and you can get a full fledged linux system.

openssh is great and id prefer to stay with it in a pure fashion.

but where im at now just has thousands upon thousands of systems.

most with super long domain names.

only about 40 machines are my direct customers that have my ssh key on. the rest rely on a password i have to obtain/provison, or ssh over ldap and the key rotates frequently.

i cant manage it in a timely fashion without a gui app that has a section to remember connections in a nested/tree fashion

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

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Post by loudtieblahblah »

soco wrote: post #28
shantnutiwari wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the latest windows , powershell comes with ssh built in. I dont use putty anymore, just open up powershell and ssh in Even better-- get WSL, and you can get a full fledged linux system.

Fine if all you need is one connection, but PuTTY has "bookmarks and settings management" on top of that.

You realize you can save all your connections, keys, settings (per connection) in ~/.ssh/config

Right?

https://linuxize.com/post/using-the-ssh-config-file/

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

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Post by loudtieblahblah »

racl101 wrote: post #7

Learning a little vim (i.e. how to open multiple buffers and tabbing between them) as well as learning a little tmux and a little htop has made my experience with ssh way more palatable.

everyone should make learning ssh, screen/tmux and vim a priority.

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

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Post by soco »

loudtieblahblah wrote: post #30
soco wrote: post #25

I'd love to see a replacement for PuTTY. The '90 shareware vibe for handling the saved sites or for setting the password/key options ruins my mood every time I have to use it (often enough). Ironically, all the few others I saw try their best to copy its look and feel...

Royal TSX on MacOs https://royalapps.com/ts/mac/features Or MremoteNG (which is a wrapper around putty among other remote tools) on Windows https://mremoteng.org/

I think mRemoteNG is my winner: multiple settings, GUI, covers even RDP... thank you!

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

#35

Post by aumerle »

linsomniac wrote: post #18
belthesar wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, getting value out of tmux required some significant overrides of the default configs, and knowing where to start was super daunting for me. From a HN post a few years back, I started installing the Noobs Term ( https://noobs-term.com ) defaults on any new system that I install. This suite of defaults does a lot of things, including installing nvim over vim, an opinionated zsh config with oh-my-zsh set of defa…

I went with oh-my-tmux, and added a few plugins for copy-pasting in the buffer, and now I'm wishing I had that ability in my kitty term as well. I can hit a couple hot-keys and get quick copy/paste access to: git revisions, file paths, words, or any random start/stop letters on the screen. Using the plugins extrakto, tmux-copy-toolkit, and tmux-copycat.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

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Post by bwc150 »

shantnutiwari wrote: post #26
soco wrote: post #25

I'd love to see a replacement for PuTTY. The '90 shareware vibe for handling the saved sites or for setting the password/key options ruins my mood every time I have to use it (often enough). Ironically, all the few others I saw try their best to copy its look and feel...

On the latest windows , powershell comes with ssh built in. I dont use putty anymore, just open up powershell and ssh in Even better-- get WSL, and you can get a full fledged linux system.

Main things I miss when I try switching away from putty are `alt-shift` for block selection and bracketed paste in to vim https://github.com/ConradIrwin/vim-bracketed-paste

Re: SSH-tools: Making SSH more convenient

#37

Post by linsomniac »

aumerle wrote: post #35
linsomniac wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went with oh-my-tmux, and added a few plugins for copy-pasting in the buffer, and now I'm wishing I had that ability in my kitty term as well. I can hit a couple hot-keys and get quick copy/paste access to: git revisions, file paths, words, or any random start/stop letters on the screen. Using the plugins extrakto, tmux-copy-toolkit, and tmux-copycat.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/

That looks promising, I'll take a look, thanks! I had gone through the list of kitties but somehow didn't think that one was what I was looking for.
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