IOSSHy

IOSSHy provides an easy to use desktop tool to quickly create and destroy SSH tunnels and launch commands based on a preconfigured setup.

Password are stored in the keyring provided by the operating system (ES: gnome’s keyring, kde’s kwallet, osx keychain, etc…)

Usage

When the program is launched, the main interface is hidden and only the icon in the system tray is shown. By clicking the tray icon, a configuration dialog will appear which allows to specify the tunnel configurations.

A tunnel configuration consists of a name, the remote port that has to be forwarded locally, the local port (leaving this value to 0 will let IOSSHy choose a free high numbered port), an optional command to execute, and the ssh server details (host, port, and username). The password will be asked when needed.

The command line may contain a special string “{port}” (without quotes) that will be replaced by the local port used for the tunnel, making it possible to write commands like:

rdesktop localhost:{port}

SSH public key authentication methods are supported through the ssh agents provided by each operating system (putty’s pageant is supported).

Windows 32bit installer

Arch Linux

Source tarball

The code is hosted on github

Clone command:

git clone git://github.com/mtorromeo/iosshy.git

Dependencies

IOSSHy is a python 2.6+ application and it also depends upon the following external libraries:

PyKDE4 (Optional for better KDE4 integration)

PyQt4 (4.6+)

paramiko

keyring

setproctitle

PyCrypto (For unix only)

Build instructions

Before using this applications the Qt forms and icon resources must be compiled. There is a unix shell script in the root of the distribution package named build.sh that takes care of this process:

cd [SOURCE FOLDER]
sh build.sh
chmod 755 bin/iosshy
bin/iosshy

CHANGELOG

New in version 1.6

Fixed loading of the autoclose setting

New in version 1.5

Clicking on the tray icon now toggles the configuration dialog visibility
Modified process title to be “iosshy” instead of the generic “python”
Included missing file from sdist (Fixes #6)
Removed problematic unique application check (will return in future versions)

New in version 1.4

Removed PyCrypto requirement on Windows
Implemented check for application already running on KDE
Fixed message “Closing tunnel” being shown multiple times

New in version 1.3

Fixed crash on application quit
Settings are saved as soon as the configuration dialog is closed
Fixed crash in about dialog when main window is hidden

New in version 1.2

Called required Random.atfork in tunnel thread, to ensure RNG thread safety
Suppressed RandomPool deprecation warning (paramiko should fix this)

LICENSE

IOSSHy is free software released under the terms of the BSD license.

See the LICENSE file provided with the source distribution for full details.

Contacts

Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>

Metadata

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Source distribution for IOSSHy 1.6
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