ssh2iterm2

README

[!NOTE]

I retired as a macOS user on January 1st, 2021. After nearly a decade as a Mac user I'm now back with Linux on my desktop.

The one thing I miss from macOS is iTerm2, but since there is no iTerm2 on Linux this is the way it has to be. This also means the support for ssh2iterm2 will probably be limited to merging pull requests from @dependabot for as long as stuff keeps working.

I really have no clue whether there are any users of this besides myself, so please drop me a note in #58 if you do use it. We'll figure out the future from there.

Create iTerm2 dynamic profile from SSH config

Converts your ~/.ssh/config to Dynamic profiles in iTerm2.

$ brew install arnested/ssh2iterm2/ssh2iterm2

By default it looks up your Host definitions in ~/.ssh/config.

You can supply another location via the environment variable SSH2ITERM2_GLOB.

I.e. set SSH2ITERM2_GLOB=~/.ssh/config.d/*.conf to run through all *.conf files in ~/.ssh/config.d and SSH2ITERM2_GLOB=~/.ssh/**/*.conf will run through all *.conf files in all folders under ~/.ssh.

The glob pattern should follow Gos path/filepath patterns.

Config file

Config will be read from ~/Library/Application Support/ssh2iterm2.yaml if the file exists.

The content of the config file could look like:

glob: ~/.ssh/**/*.conf
ssh: /usr/local/bin/ssh

An alternate config file can be read using the --config option or the $SSH2ITERM2_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.

How to run

Just run the binary without any arguments in whatever directory you like.

The generated dynamic profile

The generated dynamic profile has some features/caveats (they suit me well :-)

• The command calls ssh with an absolute path that is looked up when generating the dynamic profile. That is because iTerm2 doesn't have /usr/local/bin in its path and we would not be able to find a ssh installed by i.e. Homebrew otherwise.

  /usr/local/bin/ssh <host>
  

• We add the host as a badge

• If the the filename where the Host is defined is not config we use the filename as a tag on the profile (extension removed from file, preprending digits followed by underscore removed).

  This way you can group your Hosts.

  I.e. all Hosts defined in 20_production.conf will get a "production" tag.

• A trigger that opens iTerm2s password manager is added on the regular expression \\[sudo\\] password for.

  The password manager will get the host name as parameter.

  This can be disabled with the option --password-triggers=false.

Download

A compiled MacOS binary can be downloaded from releases.