SSH Pilot is a user-friendly, modern and lightweight SSH connection manager for Linux and macOS, with an integrated terminal.

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Features

• Tabbed interface
• Intuitive, minimal UI with keyboard navigation and shortcuts
• File management using SFTP
• Organize servers in groups
• Option to use the built-in terminal or your favorite one
• Broadcast commands to all open tabs
• Full support for Local, Remote and Dynamic port forwarding
• SCP support for quickly uploading or downloading files to/from remote servers
• Keypair generation and copying to remote servers (ssh-copy-id)
• Support for running remote and local commands upon login
• Secure storage for credentials via libsecret on Linux; no secret (password or passphrase) is copied to clipboard or saved to plain text
• Privacy toggle to show/hide ip addresses/hostnames in the main window
• Light/Dark interface themes
• Customizable terminal font and color schemes
• Load/save standard .ssh/config entries (Or use dedicated configuration file)
• Free software (GPL v3 license)

Download

• DEB/RPM

Latest release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

• Flatpak

Available on Flathub

OR in a terminal typ:

flatpak install flathub io.github.mfat.sshpilot

Please see the relevant wiki entry for more information on the Flatpak.

• Arch linux

Arch linux package via AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sshpilot

• macOS (aarch64)

Download the dmg file from the releases section https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

• Run from source

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.

python3 run.py

To enable verbose debugging output, run the app with the --verbose flag:

python3 run.py --verbose

Runtime dependencies

Install system GTK/libadwaita/VTE GI bindings (do not use pip for these).

Debian/Ubuntu (minimum versions)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install \
  python3 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo \
  libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.6) gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (>= 4.6) \
  libadwaita-1-0 (>= 1.4) gir1.2-adw-1 (>= 1.4) \
  libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 (>= 0.70) gir1.2-vte-3.91 (>= 0.70) \
  libsecret-1-0 gir1.2-secret-1 \
  python3-paramiko python3-cryptography sshpass ssh-askpass

Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

sudo dnf install \
  python3 python3-gobject \
  gtk4 libadwaita \
  vte291-gtk4 \
  libsecret \
  python3-paramiko python3-cryptography sshpass openssh-askpass

libsecret handles secure credential storage on Linux via the Secret Service API.

Run from source

python3 run.py

Enable verbose debugging with:

python3 run.py --verbose

Telegram channel

https://t.me/sshpilot

Special Thanks

• Elibugy as the primary sponsor of the project
• Behnam Tavakkoli, Chalist and Kalpase, Ramin Najjarbashi, Farid and Narbeh for testing
• Icon designed by Blisterexe

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