SSH Helper

A tool to help you manage your ssh hosts, making it easy to both quickly list your current hosts, as well as quickly generate new hosts.

Installation

You can use go get to install the tool:

$ go get github.com/aalbacetef/ssh-helper/...

Additionally, you can use the pre-built binary (linux):

• ssh-helper v0.1.3 (Linux 64-bit)

To download:

$ wget https://github.com/aalbacetef/ssh-helper/releases/download/v0.1.3/ssh-helper && chmod +x ssh-helper

Examples

Add a new host

To add a host with an existing key pair:

$ ssh-helper add \
  --name my-test-host \
  --hostname my.test.host \
  --user testuser \
  --identityfile /path/to/private/key

To add a host with the key pair being generated:

$ ssh-helper add \
  --name my-test-host \
  --hostname my.test.host \
  --user testuser \
  --newkey 

Remove an existing host

Suppose you already have a host with name existing-host, then you could:

$ ssh-helper remove --host existing-host

Usage

SSH-Helper
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Usage: ssh-helper COMMAND [OPTIONS]

A tool to manage your ssh configs. By default uses ~/.ssh/ssh-helper/ to manage all configs.

Commands:
  add       Add an ssh config, can generate a key automatically.
  backup    Backs up the current ~/.ssh directory.
  list      List all available hosts. Supports outputting in JSON format.
  remove    Remove a host from the config. This operation will not delete the key unless asked to.