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Need recommendation of SSH client with host management (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been working on a project that I need constant access (and executing commands) among at least 3 hosts in work. I’ve been using SSH’s Host function to manage which host I’m connecting to. However, I find it increasingly annoying that I can’t see which host I’m connected to via the tab on my terminal emulator (I’m using Windows Terminal on Windows and Konsole on Linux).

Is there a good SSH GUI client that can show which host a session is connected to? I’ve tried Termius. But $10 per month is too expensive to me for what I’m doing (and I don’t need most of the paid feature).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We make the prompt be user@hostname so no matter what you use it shows what host you're on. This is configurable in .bashrc iirc.

I might also recommend tmux, there's a script you can use to also set prompt in the window view. Though this is best used as a jumpserver setup.