Streamline SSH with a simple Terminal UI

SSM is an SSH connection manager that helps engineers organize servers, connect, filter, tag, execute commands (soon), transfer files (soon), and much more from a simple terminal interface.

tl;dr - try it now

• vim keys navigation: jkhl, ctrl+d/u, g/G
• filter through all your servers
• simple connect and return flow
• switch between SSH and MOSH with a tab
• quickly edit configs <ctrl+e>
• auto-reload SSH config on change
• extend config with #tag:, e.g.: $ ssm admin will show only #tag: admin hosts
• ssm --exit will exit ssm after a connection is established
• ssm --show or ctrl+v in the UI, will show config params for the selected host
• shortflags support e.g. ssm -se vpn

See CHANGELOG for more info.
See HELP for CLI flags.

<enter↵>       connect to selected host
<ctrl+v>       show config for selected host
<ctrl+e>       edit ssh configs
<tab>          switch between SSH/MOSH
< / >          filter hosts
<q or esc>     quit

# under development (coming soon)
ctrl+r         run commands on the server without starting a pty 
ctrl+s         sftp upload/download files to/from server 
ctrl+p         port-forwarding UI 
space␣         select multiple hosts to interact with

If you're not accustomed to ssh config start here otherwise skip to install

# backup any existing config
[ -f ~/.ssh/config ] && cp ~/.ssh/config ~/.ssh/config.bak
# create ssh config
cat <<EOF >>~/.ssh/config
Host hostname1
#tag: tagValue1,tagValue2,tagValueN
    User user
    HostName hello.world
    Port 2222
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host terminalcoffee
#tag: shops
    User adam
    HostName terminal.shop

Host segfault.net
#tag: research
    User root
    HostName segfault.net
EOF
# file must have 600 perms for security
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

Download ssm binary from releases

available for [Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris]
on [x86_64, i386, arm64, arm] architectures, need more? just ask

# bash one-liner
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfaoro/ssm/refs/heads/main/scripts/get.sh | bash
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfaoro/ssm/refs/heads/main/scripts/get.sh | bash

requires Go

# bootstrap
go install github.com/lfaoro/ssm@latest

# build
git clone https://github.com/lfaoro/ssm.git \
  && cd ssm \
  && make build \
  && bin/ssm

• SSH config manual
• SSH config example
• create SSH config script
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Pull requests are very welcome and will be merged.
Feature requests are also welcome, we're happy to implement your ideas.

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