sshmngrs

A fast and simple SSH connection manager in a terminal UI, built in Rust and ratatui.

Features

• Terminal UI to browse your saved connections
• Each connection has an alias and the command to run (for example ssh root@192.168.100.1)
• Launch a connection: the TUI suspends, the command runs with full access to the terminal (password prompts, host-key confirmations, etc.), and the TUI is restored afterwards
• Vim-style navigation (j / k) alongside the arrow keys
• Connections are stored as TOML in a config file located in $HOME/.config/sshmngrs.conf

Installation

Requires a recent Rust toolchain and the ssh client available on your PATH.

# Run from source
cargo run --release

# Or install the binary
cargo install --path .

# Or from crates.io
cargo install sshmngrs

Usage

Launch the app:

sshmngrs

Keybindings

Key	Action
Enter	Connect to the selected command
a	Add a new command
e	Edit the selected command
d	Delete the selected command
u	Upload a file to the host through scp
↑ / k	Move selection up
↓ / j	Move selection down
q / Esc / Ctrl+C	Quit

Configuration

Connections are stored as TOML at ~/.config/sshmngrs.conf. This is an example:

[[commands]]
alias = "kirbylife-lab (Podman)"
command = "ssh noroot@localhost:123"

[[commands]]
alias = "kirbylife-router"
command = "ssh root@192.168.100.1"

The command can be any shell command, so anything you would type in your shell works:

• Extra ssh flags
• Custom ssh paths
• scp
• Jump shosts
• Aliases from your ~/.ssh/config
• Etc...

Importing from sshch

If you come from sshch, the INI config at ~/.config/sshch.conf can be converted to the sshmngrs format with this one-liner. Each exec_string becomes a command; groups and stored passwords are ignored.

awk 'function esc(s){gsub(/\\/,"\\\\",s);gsub(/"/,"\\\"",s);return s} /^\[/{gsub(/^\[|\]$/,"");a=$0;next} /^exec_string[ \t]*=/{sub(/^exec_string[ \t]*=[ \t]*/,"");printf "[[commands]]\nalias = \"%s\"\ncommand = \"%s\"\n\n",esc(a),esc($0)}' ~/.config/sshch.conf > ~/.config/sshmngrs.conf