sshPilot is a desktop application for managing SSH connections. It loads/saves standard .ssh/config entries and make it easy to manage multiple servers.
It fully supports dynamic, remote and local port forwarding, key-pair generation, file transfer to remote machines and more.
Features:
- Load/save standard .ssh/config entries (it loads you current configuration)
- Full support for Local, Remote and Dynamic port forwarding
- Intuitive, minimal UI with keyboard navigation and shortcuts -- Press ctrl+L to quickly switch between hosts), close tabs with ctrl+w and move between tabs with alt+right/left arrow
- SCP support for quicly uploading a file to remote server
- Generate keypairs and add them to remote servers
- Toggle to show/hide ip addresses/hostnames in main UI
- Light/Dark themes
- Customizable terminal font and color schemes
- Free software (GPL v3 license)
The app is currently distributed as a debian package and can be installed on recent versions of Debian (testing/unstable) and ubuntu. Debian bookworm is not supported due to older libadwaita version.
Latest release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/tag/v2.0
You can also run the app from source. Install the modules listed in requirements.txt and a fairly recent version of GNOME and it should run.
A Flatpak and an RPM version are also planned for future.
I'm also looking for a volunteer to design a good icon for the app.
I'd highly appreciate your thoughts/feedback on this.--
11 Comments
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
I could try to design an app for the app, I'm no professional, but I also don't charge.
What would you want?
mfat@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Thanks much. I want something modern and colorful. Trending apps on Flathub have beautiful icons, Eloquent and Marknote icons are my favorites.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Ah, theyre both gnome style, that's perfect, it's what I'm working on right now.
Would you want to chat on discord or matrix or what have you, so I can show you some wips and you can lead me in the right direction.
edit: going to bed, I'll not be able to reply for a while
mfat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah of course. How can I contact you?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
I'll dm you my discord and matrix usernames, just message me on one of the two.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Any chance it supports smart card cert auth? The only one I know of is putty, and I fucking hate putty.
mfat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I'll look into that.
passenger6570@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Also been looking for something like this to replace Remmina, but ideally qt based.
mfat@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Initially I started this with PyQt, but it was a nightmare trying to integrate a terminal into the UI.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for - a clean and easy to use SSH manager!
One question: how are SSH credentials stored? Is there any option for password protection?
And one feature request: as a long time MobaXterm user on Windows, one feature I've yet to see in a Linux SSH utility is the "multi-execution" mode which let's you send commands to multiple terminals at once.
mfat@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Passwords are stored using libsecret, you can verify that by looking at GNOME Keyring. Nothing is stored in plain text. And yes, sending initial commands in a planned feature.