Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
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#2I often need to login to colleagues' machines at work, but I find that their settings are not what I am familiar with.
So I wrote an SSH wrapper in POSIX shell which tars dotfiles into a base64 string, passes it to SSH, and decodes / setups on the remote temp directory. Automatically remove when session ends.
Supported: .profile, .vimrc, .bashrc, .tmux.conf, etc.
This idea comes from kyrat[1]; passing files via a base64 string is a really cool approach.
Re: Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
#3time to call the it team at work (on the phone) to ask them to add a new item to the software allowlist
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#4 tmp="$(mktemp -d)" && rsync -a --exclude='.ssh' user@host:~/.[!.]* "$tmp"/ && HOME="$tmp" exec "$SHELL"Re: Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
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#6time to call the it team at work (on the phone) to ask them to add a new item to the software allowlist
Be careful, this will force your defaults over system defaults possibly overriding compliance or security settings. There are a few places I noticed where well-placed malware could hop in etc.
It’s not bad software, it’s also not mature. I’m currently on a phone and on vacation so this is the extent of my review. Maybe I’ll circle back around with some PRs next week
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#7tmp="$(mktemp -d)" && rsync -a --exclude='.ssh' user@host:~/.[!.]* "$tmp"/ && HOME="$tmp" exec "$SHELL"
I use something similar.
It's surprising to me how many projects can be replaced with just a line or two of shell script. This project is a slightly more sophisticated shell script that exposes a friendlier UI, but I don't see why it's needed when the alternative is much simpler, considering the target audience.
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#8time to call the it team at work (on the phone) to ask them to add a new item to the software allowlist
Be careful, this will force your defaults over system defaults possibly overriding compliance or security settings. There are a few places I noticed where well-placed malware could hop in etc. It’s not bad software, it’s also not mature. I’m currently on a phone and on vacation so this is the extent of my review. Maybe I’ll circle back around with some PRs next week
i was merely joking about the name apparently being intended to be pronounced in a rather juvenile manner
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be careful, this will force your defaults over system defaults possibly overriding compliance or security settings. There are a few places I noticed where well-placed malware could hop in etc. It’s not bad software, it’s also not mature. I’m currently on a phone and on vacation so this is the extent of my review. Maybe I’ll circle back around with some PRs next week
i was merely joking about the name apparently being intended to be pronounced in a rather juvenile manner
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Re: Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
#10chezmoi has similar functionality, but it does install a binary on the target machine: