Curious what folks are using to organise their remote connections? I liked WinSSHTerm and have tried replacing it with Remote Desktop Manager, but it seems a bit broken (fonts look terrible in a terminal, sftp doesn’t work, RDP sort of works, but it’s not great).
RDP is not a must. Folders, ssh, key auth, sftp and scp are the main things I’m looking for. Currently considering Remmina but though I would check if ppl have strong views on this topic before trying the next app.
I’m using cinnamon with mint 22.
Konsole has an SSH Manager plugin you can enable.
that is cool. I hadn’t tried konsole before - there are menus for days in here, I’ll never get any work done lol. Slick, and makes that fedora kde fling I have been considering more tempting.
Fedora KDE is what I’ve settled on for the last couple years. I’ve used Linux a very long time, this setup has been completely painless since I installed, and always very up to date.
Uh, I just type
sshorrsyncinto the terminal and that’s it. It’s a manageable amount of computers/servers I connect to, so I can remeber their names. Regular ssh stores all the keys or custom ports / IPs in its config. What’s the advantage of using some manager?Use Tabby. It is, by far, the closest to a Linux terminal experience. Likely because it’s cross platform. I say this as someone that absolutely despises Windows terminal experiences.
update to say that tabby is nice for ssh including key auth, and with profiles and groups it gets most of the job done. There is an sftp “plugin” but all it does is summon sftp. Will see if I can get it to open filezilla and use the env vars in calling the command. Setting aside RDP for now as guac looks like a good fit there.
tabby looks neat. already has an mcp plugin - impressive.
Rustdesk? Guacamole?
If youre on windows, mremoteng is very comprehensive: https://mremoteng.org/
I’ll be watching this discussion, as I’m currently using Remmina. It meet the bare minimum of SSH & RDP, but it doesn’t have a clear method to organize connections and instead uses a big list. I also find the interface a tad counterintuitive, so maybe I’m just using it wrong.
It also seems to have a bug where it launches twice whenever I start my computer. So I have to close one.
Portx, tabby and guacamole are my contenders so far. Guac would be needed for the graphical stuff - it’s sort of like a jump server running in a docker container that you would vpn into I guess? Neat concept.
It has groups FYI. Set it under your specific connection settings.
SecureCRT. Expensive but my work paid for it.
I bought it personally but I would hardly call it expensive. The three year license is like ~67 USD a year for both CRT and FX.
I love it mainly because it’s multi-platform but I wish it had more features. They boast their great integration with VShell but it would be much better if they just had better support for OpenSSH, like being able to push ssh keys to a host.
Don’t know why I thought it was like 150. $67 isn’t bad.
Odd that you have so many issues with Remote Desktop Manager, I use it all the time from my linux desktop, and both rdp and ssh work flawlessly
I would say, like many others, Remmina.
Putty also has a Linux version, so you can use that as well. Its session management is a bit clunky, but it works and it offers some fairly good functionalities.
But ssh is first and foremost a command line tool. As others have said, invest some time to learn its commands and configuration files.
Not a GUI, but I keep my
~/.ssh/configclean by splitting my configs into folders, and including them in the main ~/.ssh/config.I have the folder,
~/.ssh/config.d/, and here’s what it looks like:~/.ssh/config.d . ├── work │ ├── dev.config │ ├── staging.config │ └── prod.config └── server ├── development.config ├── containers.config ├── home.config ├── pis.config └── server.configThen my
~/.ssh/configlooks like this:Include config.d/work/* Include config.d/server/* Include config.d/other/*Cool, I did it with my
gitconfig a couple weeks ago, I didn’t know you could do it withsshtoo.for those interested:
[include] path = ~/.config/git/shared.ini path = ~/.config/git/dev-machine.ini path = ~/.config/git/aliases.ini path = ~/.config/git/self.iniOh well that’s just sexy. Never knew ssh config recognized
Include.(looks at my 230 line config)
yeah… maybe
Remmina proves a reliable solution for remote desktop access when a graphical interface is required. However, for more streamlined operations, terminal-based SSH access
ssh username@remote_hostremains the preferred method. Establishing passwordless authentication is, naturally, a matter of convenience. The commandssh-copy-id username@remote_hostfacilitates this process. It’s a rather elegant solution, isn’t it? A testament to the power of minimalism.Muon.
Does SSH, SFTP and other stuff.
Mobaxterm?Stupid windows only.
I meant for Linux. I am not brave enough to ask for windows app recommendations on Lemmy in the Linux community
I didn’t realise it was windows only. I assumed it was like royal TS where they also have a cross platform client.
I really like Asbru and have been using it for a couple of years. I used Remmina for a little while but never liked its look and feel.
Not too much active development has been going on lately, sadly, but the latest version still works very well.
This looks great - thanks!
Just the old .ssh/config file, works like a charm on all terminals :)
