gvariable / fssh

An intuitive TUI application that speeds up SSH connections with password caching and server search capabilities.

Connect quickly to your SSH servers 🚀

FSSH is a TUI tool that allows you to quickly connect to your SSH servers by navigating through your SSH config.

FSSH

A CLI tool for quickly connecting to SSH servers with an intuitive TUI interface.

Require password entry only once!

Features

• Intuitive TUI interface for selecting and searching from a large list of SSH servers.
• Automatically memorizes and encrypts passwords, requiring password entry only once.

Installation

No release is available yet, so you will need to download and compile the project manually.

git clone https://github.com/gvariable/fssh.git
cd fssh
cargo run

How It Works

1. fssh parses your ~/.ssh/config file and lists all the hosts.
2. Users can search for and select the host they want to connect to.
3. fssh spawns a new TTY and runs the SSH client to connect to the chosen host.
4. If the host requires a password, fssh will memorize and encrypt it locally. The default configuration location is ~/Library/Application Support/fssh on macOS and ~/.config/fssh on Linux. The next time the user connects to the same host, they won't need to enter the password again.
5. If the host doesn't require a password, fssh will connect directly.

Known issues

The pseudo terminal currently does not support scrollback, so users cannot view the command history.