lssh is a terminal-native remote access suite centred on SSH workflows. It can build a selectable host list from OpenSSH configuration, its own configuration files or provider-backed inventories, then connect to one or many of those systems.
The project has grown substantially beyond its original role as a simple list-based SSH client. It now brings together interactive shells, parallel command execution, file transfers, synchronisation, multi-pane sessions and remote-system monitoring.
Provider support also lets lssh operate with systems that are not exposed as ordinary SSH targets. The available operations depend on the connector used for each host.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive TUI for selecting hosts.
- Reads existing OpenSSH configuration.
- Can generate its own configuration from an OpenSSH config.
- Runs the same command across multiple hosts in parallel.
- Interactive multi-host shell workflows.
- Multi-pane remote workspaces.
- File transfer through lscp and lsftp.
- Remote file synchronisation through lssync.
- Local and remote port forwarding.
- Dynamic and reverse dynamic forwarding.
- X11 forwarding.
- SSH-agent support.
- Password, public-key, certificate and PKCS#11 authentication options.
- Supports multi-stage proxy arrangements.
- Provider inventories can supply hosts dynamically.
- Connector backends include AWS SSM, EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, WinRM and Telnet.
- Provider integrations can resolve credentials immediately before connecting.
- Local commands can work with selected hosts through pipelines.
Website: github.com/blacknon/lssh
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Developer: blacknon
License: MIT License
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