This wrapper-tool is suitable to be used in organizations for accessing ssh hosts.
A central git repository contains the ssh configuration for all your hosts and will be accessed by all users of lssh.
- Searching hosts by specifying keywords (matching hostname, or the filename that contains the host)
- Possibility to specify multiple keywords for filtering hosts
- A tui dialog to choose one of the hosts matching the given keywords
- Checks additional keywords that are given in your central configuration (per file or per host)
- Automatic session recording of each ssh session in the home directory of the calling user with a replay command option
- SSH command options are passed through
- Tab-completion for Bash
- Automatically starts and uses an ssh-agent if not already started
- The ssh configuration of the git repository is included in the official ssh configuration file, so all hosts are also accessible using ssh, without the wrapper.
- The include of the ssh configuration is protected by a security validation to prevent code execution.
The following Python packages have to be installed via pip or or package manager: xgd, cui
For the debian linux distribution, there is an install-script that installs lssh for all u
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./install/debian-systemwide-install <git_repo_url>
Replace <git_repo_url> with the clone url of your ssh configuration repository, that must be formatted as described in SSH config format
There is also a corresponding uninstaller:
./install/debian-systemwide-uninstall
If you use another distribution or want custom settings, you can also install and configure lssh manually.
See Installing lssh manually.
After successful installation, run lssh --help to see the possible commands and options.