sshp

Host chaining, search available configuration and other helpful commands for everyday ssh-related task.

To Use

$ sshp

sshp <HOST>
	Login to MACHINE

sshp <HOST1>+<HOST2>
	Login to HOST2 via HOST1

sshp [info] [pattern]
sshp [grep] [pattern]
sshp [search] [pattern]
	search your ~/.ssh/config and accepts all options of grep

sshp [list|-l]
	list all hosts

sshp [start|status|stop] <HOST..>
	Check the SSH connection status of a HOST

sshp proxy <HOST>
	HOST as proxy server

Host chaining

sshp supports host chaining, this take advantage of ProxyCommand and establish a connection for you. Your local machine will need to have nc installed for this to work.

$ sshp host1+host2

This will first attempt a connection to host1, then once a connection is established it will reuse that connection to login to host2

Configuration for both host1 and host2 can be configured in ~/.ssh/config. Alternatively you can also set it directly.

$ sshp user1@host1+user2@host2

Chaining multiple host with + can work too.

Additionally, you can set the following in your ~/.ssh/config so that you use ssh command directly.

Host *+*
	ProxyCommand sshp ProxyCommand %h %p

Example

$ ssh host1+host2

To Setup

1. Add the following to your ~/.ssh/config. This will use Shared SSH connections

Host * ForwardAgent yes ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/%r@%h:%p ControlPersist 4h KeepAlive yes Compression yes UseRoaming no

2. Add `sshp` to your `~/bin` directory


#### Advanced

If you want to separate your configuration files to smaller chunks, you can do so by creating a `~/.ssh/config.d` directory and `sshp` will consolidate all files found in this directory into `~/.ssh/config`
Beware, this will overwrite your `~/.ssh/config` whenever there are changes in `~/.ssh/config.d`.

#### Reference

For more information on how to configure your `~/.ssh/config`, see http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config