SSSH Alpha version
SSSH is an augmentation for the SSH protocol which adds GUI elements to improve the usability of a terminal. The current functionalities are (all the communication are transmitted over an ssh connection):
- Manage servers configurations:
- Username
- Password
- Authentication key
- Host IP
- Bash terminal.
- File explorer.
- History GUI:
- List of recently used commands.
- Search.
- Locally save commands.
- List of all commands installed:
- Search.
- Locally save commands.
- Text editor for remote files (with command support for those vim lovers).
- List of current variables in the bash terminal (working on more improvements).
- Manual Visualizer for commands.
- *The ability to create Plug-ins.
*The Plug-in support is on development but the current implementation takes this into consideration and every functionality above is created like a plug-in that uses an API.
The idea for the SSSH protocol is to create a GUI for every Unix utility that would improve the use of a terminal, for example, the History functionality is a GUI to manage the history command and can help terminal users to locally save frequently used commands for later use or help search the command history in a more visual way than using ctrl + r or hitting the up arrow multiple times.
As a dummy example to illustrate this idea, let’s image a Plug-in that has a simple GUI to control chmod which is not a hard command to use but this GUI could help people that don’t know by memory all the modifier values for chmod also it could help people that use that command in a regular basis by making it faster to use (maybe remembering the last used modifiers) and also having a file selector to quickly select the file to apply the modifiers.
Index
Downloads
Client
| OS | Link |
|---|---|
| Linux (Red Hat) | sssh-client-0.0.16.x86_64.rpm |
| Linux (Debian) | sssh-client-0.0.16.x86_64.deb |
| Linux | sssh-client_0.0.16_amd64.snap |
| macOS | sssh-client-0.0.16.dmg |
| windows | sssh-client-0.0.16.msi |
Server
| OS | Link |
|---|---|
| Linux (Debian) | sssh-server_x86-64_0.0.16.deb |
| macOS | sssh_server0.0.16.pkg |
| Raspberrypi (Debian) | sssh-server_raspberrypi_0.0.16.deb |
| Linux Manual Install | manual.sssh_server-linux_x86-64_0.0.16.tar.gz |
Server
Installation
The installation has been updated and now you can just double click the installer or use dpkg (linux).
Alternative installation
If you do not wish to use the installer, you can simply run
sudo ./sssh_server
But you need to have a rsa key, which you can create with the OpenSSH suite or using the sssh_server like this:
./sssh_server -mode=keygen
You can specify the location of the keys:
sudo ./sssh_server -keyfile=./id_rsa
Client
The client currently only supports Unix-like systems and Windows 10 (<= 1809), it has been tested in macos (10.14.6), Ubuntu (16), Windows (latest version on 3/14/2020). Any compatibility problem please reported it in the issue section.
If you find a Unix system wher the client doesn’t work, please open an Issue to fix it.
Contact
ffransebas@gmail.com