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sshPilot, a FOSS alternative to Putty/Termius (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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sshPilot is a user friendly linux app for managing SSH connections. Features:

  • Tabbed interface

  • Full support for Local, Remote and Dynamic port forwarding

  • Intuitive, minimal UI with keyboard navigation and shortcuts

  • SCP support for quicly uploading a file to remote server

  • Generate keypairs and add them to remote servers

  • Secure storage for credentials using libsecret

  • Privacy toggle to show/hide ip addresses/hostnames in the main window Aand more

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Have you tried gnome-terminal for a tabbed minimal UI for ssh? How about rsync for transferring files? How about ssh-copy-id?

What is the point of this project?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is for people who manage multiple machines and prefer a graphical, unified GUI, and also for newbies, the same users who use Putty, Mobaxterm or Termius.

    It does have buttons for ssh-copy-id and scp. I preferred rsync myself but the problem is that it's not installed by default and the user must manually install it on their remote machine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I guess mayhaps I’m not the target audience as I can achieve this effect with existing tools and I avoid GUI whenever possible.

    Maybe also not the target OS, but sometimes ssh isn’t installed by default either. It would be cool if you add rsync as a prereq

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What is the point of this project?

    This is an application for people who install webmin and/or a full desktop to remote into on a server machine.

    But yeah, ssh, tmux, rsync/rclone should be enough for anyone competent.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Meh. Tried tmux and went back to screen

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tried zellij yet? The first one I stuck with and didn't stop using again after a few days cause I can't just remember key binds.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not yet, my WM largely negates the need but in the case of WSL I do use screen. I’ll see if it’s available easily with Ubuntu and try it out.

    Thank you

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    IDK, I think there's a niche here.

    I have a home server and rent a larger bare metal server in a data centre. Each has many docker containers. I haven't had to deploy ssh keys in years.

    There's another school that seems to prefer to spin up a digital ocean vps for every new thing. That's fine too, and I can see how this project would make that kind of workflow more manageable.

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