Developed as a personal project, this utility focuses on handling the storage, modification, and selection of SSH connection details without storing passwords.
- SSH into Hosts
- Read and Write SSH Connection Data
- Interactive Command Interface
- Connection Listing
- Add, Remove, and Modify Connections
- fs: Node.js file system module for reading and writing files.
- inquirer: A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
- child_process: Used to spawn child processes, in this case, to initiate SSH sessions.
- cli-table3: Renders Unicode-aided tables on the command line.
- inquirer-autocomplete-prompt: An inquirer plugin for autocompleting input based on existing entries.
- Ensure that Node.js is installed on your machine.
- Clone this repository or download the source code.
- Install the necessary npm packages by running npm install.
- Configure the file path in the script to point to your ssh.json file containing the SSH connection data.
The application supports several command-line arguments for different operations:
--add: Adds a new SSH connection.--remove: Removes an existing SSH connection.--modify: Modifies an existing SSH connection.--list: Lists all stored SSH connections.
No argument: Connects via SSH to a chosen host.