sshmenu is a simple tool for connecting to remote hosts via ssh. Great if you have trouble remembering ip addresses, hostnames, or usernames.

This tool works by using Python's os.execlp(...), which will replace the current process (python) with ssh.

Tested working on OS X El Capitan (10.11.5) and Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (16.04)

OS X

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mike724/sshmenu/master/sshmenu.rb

Linux

pip3 install sshmenu

On first run an example configuration file will be created for you, along with the path. For reference, I've added this information here as well.

OS X

nano ~/Library/Application\ Support/sshmenu/config.json

Linux

nano ~/.config/sshmenu/config.json

Default contents

{
  "targets" : [
    {
      "friendly" : "This is an example target",
      "host" : "user@example-machine.local"
    }
  ]
}

• Automatically ask to place your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub into the remote host's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys