9M6 / ssh-user

Add multiuser capabilities to your ssh

ssh-user

Add "multiuser" capabilities to your ssh.

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This simple script replaces the private-key reference in your .ssh/config, by doing this simple modification, we can switch keys on the fly, and gives us a "multi-user" capabilities.

If you have multi-github accounts, this script will allow you to push changes to your selected account given that you have the ssh private key.

NOTE: This has been tested only on MacOS, use at your own discretion.

Install

You need Go installed to get the package and install the binaries.

$ go install github.com/9M6/ssh-user

Basic how to use.

$ ssh-user [-flags] [argument]

flags should be defined before the arguments

List all available flags

$ ssh-user -help

  -config string
        default config file of the SSH,  (default ".ssh/config")
  -help
        display help message of the command line
  -host string
        Set the default host value you want to target (default "*")
  -list
        List the configurations in .ssh/config file

Switching Users

Given that you have the following

-rw-------  9M6 # Private Key
-rw-r--r--  9M6.pub # Public Key
-rw-r--r--  config # Your config file
-rw-------  id_rsa # Private Key
-rw-r--r--  id_rsa.pub # Public Key
-rw-r--r--  known_hosts # Not an account

Each key represents a acconnection to an "account".

Switching Users

$ ssh-user 9M6

$ ssh-user id_rsa

Using Flags

To select a specific host

$ ssh-user -host=github.com 9M6

To use a different config file

$ ssh-user -config ./my/working/config 9M6

To list the config file

$ ssh-user -list