It provides a CLI client for Geofront, a simple SSH key management server.

It is available on PyPI, so you can install it using pip installer.

$ pip install geofront-cli

What you have to do first of all is to configure the Geofront server URL. Type geofront-cli start and then it will show a prompt:

$ geofront-cli start
Geofront server URL:

We suppose http://example.com/ here. It will open an authentication page in your default web browser:

$ geofront-cli start
Geofront server URL: http://example.com/
Continue to authenticate in your web browser...
Press return to continue

You can list the available remotes using geofront-cli remotes command:

$ geofront-cli remotes
web-1
web-2
web-3
worker-1
worker-2
db-1
db-2

If you give -v/--verbose option it will show their actual addresses as well:

$ geofront-cli remotes -v
web-1    ubuntu@192.168.0.5
web-2    ubuntu@192.168.0.6
web-3    ubuntu@192.168.0.7
worker-1 ubuntu@192.168.0.25
worker-2 ubuntu@192.168.0.26
db-1 ubuntu@192.168.0.50
db-2 ubuntu@192.168.0.51

You can easily connect to a remote through SSH. Use geofront-cli ssh command instead of vanilla ssh:

$ geofront-cli ssh web-1
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-042stab078.27 i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
ubuntu@web-1:~$ 

There is geofront-cli scp command as well, which is corresponding to scp:

$ geofront-cli scp file.txt web-1:file.txt
file.txt                                      100% 3157     3.1KB/s   00:00
$ geofront-cli scp -r web-1:path/etc/apt ./
sources.list                                  100% 3157     3.1KB/s   00:00
trusted.gpg                                   100%   14KB  13.9KB/s   00:00

• Shortcut for geofront-cli ssh command
• Make geofront-cli ssh similar to ssh
• Autocompletion

Hong Minhee wrote geofront-cli, and Spoqa maintains it. It is licensed under GPLv3 or later.

To be released.

• Fixed an AttributeError during handling error sent by server. [#4]

Released on November 14, 2014.

• Added -v/--version option.
• Fixed an AttributeError during handling error from server. [#2, #3 by Lee Jaeyoung]

Released on June 29, 2014.

• Added geofront-cli scp command.
• Added the short option -S for --ssh.
• It becomes to no more depend on dirspec. Instead it's simply bundled together.
• geofront-cli now prints a usage description when no subcommand specified.

Released on May 3, 2014.

• Added handling of unfinished authentication error.
• Added handling of incompatible protocol version.

Released on April 22, 2014.

• Fixed Python 2 incompatibility.
• Added warning for non-SSL server URL.

First pre-alpha release. Released on April 21, 2014.