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sshmgr

modern SSH manager

Your fleet, one terminal

Modern SSH connection manager for the terminal. Full CLI + TUI in a single Go binary. Jump hosts, OS-keyring login chains, port forwarding, parallel exec across host fleets, and native Ansible integration.

View on GitHub → Quick install

What it looks like

Launch with sshmgr ui. The default view is the tree, grouped by each host's primary group. Tab switches to a flat alphabetical list.

sshmgr ui 
┌── hosts (tree) ──────────────────┐┌── details ───────────────────────────────┐
│ 🟢  ▼ fleet (365)                ││ web-eu-01                                │
│ 🟢      bastion-eu  [jumphost]   ││                                          │
│ 🟢      web-eu-01                ││ host:            web-eu-01               │
│ 🟢      web-eu-02                ││ port:            12344                   │
│ 🟢  ▶ home (8)                   ││ user:            gn                      │
│ ⚫  ▶ (ungrouped) (0)            ││ key:             ~/.ssh/id_ed25519       │
│                                  ││ groups:          fleet                   │
│                                  ││ tags:            fleet                   │
│                                  ││ auto_duo_push:   true                    │
│                                  ││ proxy_command:   ssh bastion-eu -W %h:%p │
│                                  ││ last connect:    2026-05-19T13:24:18Z    │
└──────────────────────────────────┘└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
 tree · sort name · 373 hosts
 Enter/s/f/p/c shell/sftp/files/fwd/snippet  x exec  w watch  P playbook
 Space mark  Tab tree  S sort  a/e/d host  A/R/D group  / filter  ? help  q quit

What sshmgr does

Built for teams that manage dozens or hundreds of SSH hosts through jumphost bastions, Duo MFA, and multi-step sudo

CLI + TUI, one binary

Full terminal UI with host tree, live status indicators, and connection menus — plus a scriptable CLI for pipelines. Single Go binary, no daemons.

Login chains with OS keyring

Multi-step SSH login (su, sudo, jumphost) with passwords from OS keyring (Secret Service, macOS Keychain), env vars, custom commands, or interactive prompts.

Port forwarding & file transfer

-L / -R / -D SOCKS5 + X11 + agent forwarding. Built-in SCP / SFTP / 2-pane file manager sharing the same connect chain (proxy_jump, bastions, all auth backends).

Parallel exec on fleets

sshmgr exec --group fleet 'uptime' — N hosts in parallel with bounded concurrency, prefixed output, pass/fail summary, retries, --diff, --json.

Ansible integration

export ansible turns the fleet into an inventory (resolving bastion chains and proxy hops for you). playbook subcommand runs ansible-playbook against any selector.

sshmgr lint

Catches broken proxy_jump refs, missing key files, snippet collisions, and undefined groups before you ever hit them at connect time.

Snippets per host or group

Saved one-liners picked from a TUI menu or run from the CLI: sshmgr alias :name. Inherited from groups, shareable from reusable file libraries.

Session recording

Optional tee of the remote shell to a per-session log file for audit, replay, and post-mortem troubleshooting. No black boxes.

3 colour themes

Default (aqua), hacker (matrix green), cyberpunk (neon). Live host status (UP / DOWN / DEGRADED) visible in the TUI without a manual refresh.

Quick install

Linux or macOS, Go 1.26+. Windows works in theory but isn't tested.

$ git clone https://github.com/pawel-cygal/sshmgr.git
$ cd sshmgr
$ go build -o sshmgr .
$ sudo install -m 0755 sshmgr /usr/local/bin/sshmgr

$ sshmgr ui             # launch the TUI
$ sshmgr <alias>        # connect to a host (CLI default)
$ sshmgr --help         # list all CLI commands

Full README on GitHub →

Try sshmgr on your fleet

MIT-licensed open source. No user accounts, no telemetry, no daemons. Clone, build, use. Issues and pull requests welcome.

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