🚀 sshman: A Simple and Secure SSH Manager
Sshman is a terminal-based SSH manager built with Ruby that simplifies managing your SSH connections. It enables you to easily add, edit, delete, and connect to servers with just a few commands. The tool supports SSH keys and passwords and secures your configuration with restricted file permissions.
✨ Features
- Add SSH server configurations
- List all saved servers in a neatly formatted table
- Edit existing server configurations
- Delete server entries by alias
- Connect to servers via SSH in a single command
- Security: Restricts file permissions to protect SSH keys
- User-friendly CLI: Interactive, colorized terminal-based interface with built-in help
- SSH-key generation: Easy fool proof ssh-key generation
📦 Installation
Using RubyGems
Install the gem locally or globally:
gem install sshman
###From Source
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/subnetmasked/sshman.git
cd sshman
Build and install the gem:
gem build sshman.gemspec
gem install ./sshman-X.X.X.gem --user-install
🚀 Quick Start
After installing the gem, you can use the sshman command to manage your SSH servers.
Inline Commands
You can now run commands directly:
- sshman list - List all saved servers
- shman add - Add a new server configuration
- sshman edit - Edit an existing server
- sshman delete - Delete a server by its alias
- sshman connect - Connect to a server by its alias
- sshman help - Display help information
Interactive Mode
Simply run:
sshman
This will launch the interactive menu where you can add, edit, delete, or connect to servers interactively.
sshman Roadmap
- Add SSH server configurations✅
- List all saved servers in a neatly formatted table✅
- Edit existing server configurations✅
- Delete server entries by alias✅
- Connect to servers via SSH in a single command✅
- Security: Restricts file permissions to protect SSH keys✅
- User-friendly CLI: Interactive, colorized terminal-based interface with built-in help✅
- Session logging and replay✅
- SSH key generation✅
- Remote script execution⏳
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) support⏳
- Automated server health checks⏳
- Dashboard for server status⏳
- Customizable connection profiles⏳
- Import/export server configurations⏳
- Batch operations on multiple servers⏳
🤝 Contributing
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page to report bugs or request features.
- Fork the project
- Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
- Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add some feature'
- Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
- Submit a pull request
📄 License
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0) - see the LICENSE file for details.
💬 Questions?
If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to open an issue or reach out to me at subnetmasked@cock.li.