• Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    I doubt this was meant for linux…

    It is. You cant get ssh to print out a nice list afaik.

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      1 year ago

      Great attempt on making a tool, I think your usecase might not be as appealing to others. If I need to list the hosts I have config for I would use: grep Host ~/.ssh/config If your list of servers is too long to remember, you might want to look at Ansible for configuration. But whatever works for you :)

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      I can (and do) just read the ~/ssh/.config file if needed, it’s quite legible. In most cases however zsh autocompletion does all the heavy lifting for me (ssh ser(tab) -> ssh servername).

      Still a cool idea for a script, and if it works well for you more power to you, just saying there’s more ergonomic and universally applicable solutions. (Only mentioning this since you said “I couldn’t find a decent solution to this problem”).

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      You have a list of systems you’ve connected to in known_hosts, though. And the config file is easy enough to parse - throwing away the stuff you don’t care about - to expand on that list.

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          I assume you mean “lookup”, as import doesn’t really make much sense.

          I’m currently using this with wofi, though I’ll eventually rewrite it as anyrun plugin, which provides a bit more control:

          #!/usr/bin/env python3
          from argparse import ArgumentParser
          import subprocess
          import json
          import os
           
          ssh_config_file = "~/.ssh/config"
          ssh_known_hosts_file = "~/.ssh/known_hosts"
           
          # Returns a list of all hosts
          def get_hosts():
           
              hosts = []
           
              with open(os.path.expanduser(ssh_config_file)) as f:
                  content = f.readlines()
           
              for line in content:
                  line = line.lstrip()
                  # Ignore wildcards
                  if line.startswith('Host ') and not '*' in line:
                      for host in line.split()[1:]:
                          hosts.append(host)
           
              # Removes duplicate entries
              hosts = sorted(set(hosts))
           
              return hosts
           
          def get_known_hosts():
           
              hosts = []
           
              with open(os.path.expanduser(ssh_known_hosts_file)) as f:
                  content = f.readlines()
           
              for line in content:
                  line = line.lstrip()
                  host_entry = line.partition(" ")[0]
                  hosts.append(host_entry.partition(",")[0])
           
              # Removes duplicate entries
              hosts = sorted(set(hosts))
           
              return hosts
           
          # Returns a newline seperated UFT-8 encoded string of all ssh hosts
          def parse_hosts(hosts):
              return "\n".join(hosts).encode("UTF-8")
           
          # Executes wofi with the given input string
          def show_wofi(command, hosts):
           
              process = subprocess.Popen(command,shell=True,stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
              ret = process.communicate(input=hosts)
              host, rest = ret
              return host
           
          # Switches the focus to the given id
          def ssh_to_host(host, terminal, ssh_command):
           
              if "]:" in host:
                  host, port = host[1:].split("]:")
                  command = "{terminal} \'{ssh_command} {host} -p {port}\'".format(terminal=terminal, ssh_command=ssh_command, host=host, port=port)
              else:
                  command = "{terminal} \'{ssh_command} {host}\'".format(terminal=terminal, ssh_command=ssh_command, host=host)
           
              process = subprocess.Popen(command,shell=True)
           
          # Entry point
          if __name__ == "__main__":
           
              parser = ArgumentParser(description="Wofi based ssh launcher")
              parser.add_argument("terminal", help='Terminal command to use')
              parser.add_argument("--ssh-command", dest='ssh_command', default='ssh', help='ssh command to use (default=ssh)')
              parser.add_argument("--mode", dest='mode', default='known_hosts', help='where to read from (default=known_hosts)')
              parser.add_argument("--command", default='wofi -p \"SSH hosts: \" -d -i --hide-scroll', help='launcher command to use')
              args = parser.parse_args()
           
              if (args.mode == "config"):
                  hosts = get_hosts()
              elif (args.mode == "known_hosts"):
                  hosts = get_known_hosts()
           
              parsed_hosts = parse_hosts(hosts)
           
              selected = show_wofi(args.command, parsed_hosts)
           
              selected_host = selected.decode('utf-8').rstrip()
           
              if selected_host != "":
                  ssh_to_host(selected_host, args.terminal, args.ssh_command)