3w ago

I made a simple graphical SSH connection manager

sshPilot is an ssh connection manager made with GTK and Python.

Here are the features:

Manage multiple SSH connections
Open eac h connection in a separate tab
Both password and SSH key authentication methods are supported
Automatically detects SSH keys in ~/.ssh/
Use your desired color theme and font style for the terminal
Uses secure password storage (GNOME secure password storage)

If you manage multiple remote machines, this might come in handy.

22 comments

Nice tool. What inspired you to make it?
- Thanks. Personally i always wanted a FOSS alternative to Termius on desktop.
  A unified UI that allows connecting to multiple servers easily.
  
  Any highlights from the development process? Any particular complication with tooling/libraries used or anything that went better/faster than expected?
Not trying to dunk on your project, but if people look for something a bit more feature rich - I've been happily using xPipe for a year.
- Yeah xPipe is a powerhouse. This is very basic for now, although I plan to add more features.
  
  Looking forward to future updates! Keep us posted
Good work. Any plans on turning this into a self-hosted solution (Docker maybe) so I don't need to configure the same credentials on every machine I use?
- Thanks. You can use Termix. It exactly does what you said. https://github.com/LukeGus/Termix
Looks great! Nice work
- Thanks much. Any features you'd like to see added?
  
  On connectbot for Android I really appreciate the feature that saves port forwarding settings for each connection. If you can add that and the option to start forwarding on connect that would be great.
  Also it would be nice to be able to specify a custom command to run instead of the user's shell.
What did you find you either liked or disliked about the GTK + Python combo for building this?
Nice one! I currently have to use Windows with putty as a desktop system for a client. And it's all very low-tech, so I have to check logs and do config on each node of a cluster separately, rather than using Logstash/Grafana and domain mode.
Pretty neat low-tech hack that MTPutty has: Enter a command that is sent to all open windows. Shouldn't be needed when things are set up properly most of the time, but I'll put it out there as a feature suggestion anyway.
- Thanks! That's pretty easy to implement. Will add that feature in the next release.
This looks fantastic! Good work!
- Thanks much. The new version is mioes betrer. Please check it out https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot
Nice, i will be checking this out!
Nice. That looks great.

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