geofront-cli 0.1.0

CLI client for Geofront, a simple SSH key management server

It provides a CLI client for Geofront, a simple SSH key management server.

Installation

It is available on PyPI, so you can install it using pip installer. Though you have to specify --allow-external and --allow-unverified options (related issues: 1, 2).

$ pip install --allow-external dirspec \
              --allow-unverified dirspec \
              geofront-cli

Getting started

What you have to do first of all is to configure the Geofront server URL. Type geofront-cli start and then it will show a prompt:

$ geofront-cli start
Geofront server URL:

We suppose http://example.com/ here. It will open an authentication page in your default web browser:

$ geofront-cli start
Geofront server URL: http://example.com/
Continue to authenticate in your web browser...
Press return to continue

List available remotes

You can list the available remotes using geofront-cli remotes command:

$ geofront-cli remotes
web-1
web-2
web-3
worker-1
worker-2
db-1
db-2

If you give -v/--verbose option it will show their actual addresses as well:

$ geofront-cli remotes -v
web-1        ubuntu@192.168.0.5
web-2        ubuntu@192.168.0.6
web-3        ubuntu@192.168.0.7
worker-1     ubuntu@192.168.0.25
worker-2     ubuntu@192.168.0.26
db-1 ubuntu@192.168.0.50
db-2 ubuntu@192.168.0.51

SSH to remote

You can easily connect to a remote through SSH. Use geofront-cli ssh command instead of vanilla ssh:

$ geofront-cli ssh web-1
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-042stab078.27 i686)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
ubuntu@web-1:~$

Missing features

• Wrapper around scp

• Shortcut for geofront-cli ssh command

• Make geofront-cli ssh similar to ssh

• Autocompletion

Author and license

Hong Minhee wrote geofront-cli, and Spoqa maintains it. It is licensed under GPLv3 or later.

Changelog

Version 0.1.0

First pre-alpha release. Released on April 21, 2014.