This wrapper-tool is suitable to be used in organizations for accessing ssh hosts.

A central git repository contains the ssh configuration for all your hosts and will be accessed by all users of lssh.

• Searching hosts by specifying keywords (matching hostname, or the filename that contains the host)
• Possibility to specify multiple keywords for filtering hosts
• A tui dialog to choose one of the hosts matching the given keywords
• Checks additional keywords that are given in your central configuration (per file or per host)
• Automatic session recording of each ssh session in the home directory of the calling user with a replay command option
• SSH command options are passed through
• Tab-completion for Bash
• Automatically starts and uses an ssh-agent if not already started
• The ssh configuration of the git repository is included in the official ssh configuration file, so all hosts are also accessible using ssh, without the wrapper.
• The include of the ssh configuration is protected by a security validation to prevent code execution.

The following Python packages have to be installed via pip or or package manager: xgd, cui

For the debian linux distribution, there is an install-script that installs lssh for all users and must be run as root:
./install/debian-systemwide-install <git_repo_url>
Replace <git_repo_url> with the clone url of your ssh configuration repository, that must be formatted as described in SSH config format

There is also a corresponding uninstaller:
./install/debian-systemwide-uninstall

If you use another distribution or want custom settings, you can also install and configure lssh manually.
See Installing lssh manually.

After successful installation, run lssh --help to see the possible commands and options.