fssh 1.0.8

Fast SSH for UTCS students

fssh 🐟

"fish swim fast" - someone, probably

A fast SSH tool for UT Austin CS students.

Introduction

SSH is tedious. Go to host machine list. Find optimal machine. Enter command. Interact. Login.

It could be faster.

Prereqs

1. have bash or zsh or some other shell
2. have python
3. set up UT SSH

Installation

1. pip install fssh
2. fssh-setup
3. profit 💰

Usage

fssh

The above commmand will do everything for you.

If that's not what you want, you can opt to add in the -p flag to print the optimal machine (it will also copy the correct command to your clipboard, i.e., ssh <YOUR UTCS USERNAME>@<OPTIMAL HOST>.cs.utexas.edu).

fssh -h for help (there's not a lot, it's pretty simple).

On fssh-setup

Part of SSH is entering your UTCS username and SSH passkey—fssh cannot bypass this, as it sadly is not magic. As such, to fully utilize fssh, the script needs access to this information somehow.

This is implemented through a setup script that logs your credentials to your respective shell profile (where you keep your API keys and such). As such, the information is recorded on a safe place on your local machine.

Without interacting with fssh-setup, the script cannot provide you any more information than the optimal host name.

Terminal Choice

The full fssh functionality works great for most terminals. Not so much for some fancier ones (cough, cough Warp). You may not get full functionality of your fancy terminal emulator. In such cases, the fssh -p command will probably do you best.