🚀 sshman: A Simple and Secure SSH Manager

Sshman is a terminal-based SSH manager built with Ruby that simplifies managing your SSH connections. It enables you to easily add, edit, delete, and connect to servers with just a few commands. The tool supports SSH keys and passwords and secures your configuration with restricted file permissions.

✨ Features

• Add SSH server configurations
• List all saved servers in a neatly formatted table
• Edit existing server configurations
• Delete server entries by alias
• Connect to servers via SSH in a single command
• Security: Restricts file permissions to protect SSH keys
• User-friendly CLI: Interactive, colorized terminal-based interface with built-in help
• SSH-key generation: Easy fool proof ssh-key generation

📦 Installation

Using RubyGems

Install the gem locally or globally:

gem install sshman

###From Source

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/subnetmasked/sshman.git
cd sshman

Build and install the gem:

gem build sshman.gemspec
gem install ./sshman-X.X.X.gem --user-install

🚀 Quick Start

After installing the gem, you can use the sshman command to manage your SSH servers.

Inline Commands You can now run commands directly:

• sshman list - List all saved servers
• shman add - Add a new server configuration
• sshman edit - Edit an existing server
• sshman delete - Delete a server by its alias
• sshman connect - Connect to a server by its alias
• sshman help - Display help information

Interactive Mode

Simply run:

sshman

This will launch the interactive menu where you can add, edit, delete, or connect to servers interactively.

sshman Roadmap

• Add SSH server configurations✅
• List all saved servers in a neatly formatted table✅
• Edit existing server configurations✅
• Delete server entries by alias✅
• Connect to servers via SSH in a single command✅
• Security: Restricts file permissions to protect SSH keys✅
• User-friendly CLI: Interactive, colorized terminal-based interface with built-in help✅
• Session logging and replay✅
• SSH key generation✅
• Remote script execution⏳
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) support⏳
• Automated server health checks⏳
• Dashboard for server status⏳
• Customizable connection profiles⏳
• Import/export server configurations⏳
• Batch operations on multiple servers⏳

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page to report bugs or request features.

• Fork the project
• Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
• Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add some feature'
• Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
• Submit a pull request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0) - see the LICENSE file for details.

💬 Questions?

If you have any questions or need further clarification, feel free to open an issue or reach out to me at subnetmasked@cock.li.