SSH Tips and Tricks

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  • Mosh

    Mobile Shell

    I did some digging, and apparently there's a new release candidate available which is accumulating those 5 years of code changes that for some reason haven't been turned into a release:

    https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/releases/tag/mosh-1.3.2...

    If anyone here is more knowledgeable, it'd be good to know why it's been this long since an official release. It looks like most of the authors of mosh are academics, so my best guess is that mosh is a volunteer effort and it's just something that slipped through the cracks

  • openssh-portable

    Portable OpenSSH

    Well, it used to break scp, but then I fixed scp: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/77e05394a...

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • github-keygen

    Easy creation of secure SSH configuration for your GitHub account(s)

    For those who use (or want to use) SSH to connect to GitHub for Git, I wrote 11 years ago a tool to maintain my SSH settings for GitHub. I still actively maintain it.

    https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen/

    github-keygen features:

  • ssh-save-alias

    Quickly create ssh aliasses without manually editing ~/.ssh/config

    It’s been a while, but i’ve created a tool that simplifies the way to add an alias to your .ssh/config file called ssh-save-alias.

    https://github.com/vjanssens/ssh-save-alias

  • cpu

    cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command

    What's the problem with FUSE?

    Anyway, it needs a daemon on the remote system, but perhaps https://github.com/u-root/cpu is suitable. (I can't vouch for it, not having used it.)

    The HTCondor batch system also provides something like that, but I don't know details, and it's probably not a separable component.

  • ssh-tools

    Discontinued Making SSH more convenient

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