redial22 improved

redial22 improved is a simple shell application that manages your SSH sessions on Unix terminal. This application is a fork of the original redail developed by: Author: Bahadır Yağan

What's New

1.2.0 (07-09-2025)

• Basic support for adding ssh keys to connections
• Dynamic, Local and Remote port forwarding settings (only one of each can be defined for now)
• UI state is restored at startup. Redial22 now remembers last selected connection and folder expanded/collapsed states
• Support to use ProxyJump (Bastion servers)
• Now you can remove a folder
• Run on Docker container (updated with Debian Bookworm)
• Now you can pass argument to CLI to direct connect to host
• Now you can pass folder name as argument to open redial22 with only the folder showing on TUI

Installation

Requirements

• Python 3 or later to run redial22.
• mc (Midnight Commander) to use F5 (Browse) feature.

Installing mc (Midnight Commander)

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get install mc

CentOS/RHEL/Fedora:

sudo yum install mc
# or for newer versions:
sudo dnf install mc

macOS:

brew install mc

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S mc

Stable Version

Installing via pip

We recommend installing redial22 via pip:

pip3 install redial22

Latest Version

Installing from Git

You can install the latest version from Git:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/FelipeMiranda/redial22.git

Docker

Dockerfile is provided.

Build Dockerfile:

docker build -t redial22 .

Run redial22 in Docker Container

docker run -it --rm redial22:latest redial22

Features

• Manage your connections in folders/groups
• Open a file manager to your remote host (Midnight Commander should be installed)
• Edit/Move/Delete connection
• Copy SSH Key to remote host
• ProxyJump (Bastion server)
• Type-to-search for connections and folders (see below)

Type-to-Search (Incremental Search)

Press / to enter search mode, then start typing the name or IP of a connection or folder. The first visible match will be selected automatically. Press ESC or Enter to exit search mode.

Note: The search only works for folders and connections that are currently visible (i.e., inside expanded folders). If a folder is collapsed, its contents will not be found by search until you expand it.

Connect to SSH Session (ENTER)

Press ENTER to connect a SSH session.

Add Folder (F6)

Press F6 or click F6 New Folder to add a folder. There must be at least one connection under the folder.

Add Connection (F7)

Press F7 or click F7 New Conn. to add a ssh connection.

Browse over mc (F5)

Press F5 or click F5 Browse to open mc (Midnight Commander) session.

Note: This feature requires mc (Midnight Commander) to be installed on your system. If you don't have it installed, you'll see an error message. See the installation instructions above.

Remove Connection (F8)

Press F8 or click F8 Remove to remove a session/folder.

Edit Connection (F9)

Press F9 or click F9 Edit to edit a session.

Move sessions and folders

Press CTRL and up/down keys to move session or folder. For macOS users: Use ALT and up/down keys.

Notes

Configuration file is stored in ~/.config/redial22/sessions. File format is same as the SSH config file. Configuration file can be included in SSH config file with the following way (Make sure that ~/.ssh/config file exists):

sed -i -e '1iInclude ~/.config/redial22/sessions' ~/.ssh/config

Platforms

• Linux
• macOS

Windows is currently not supported.

License

redial22 is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Command-Line Usage

You can use redial22 from the command line in the following ways:

• redial22 — Launches the full TUI as normal.
• redial22 <connection-name> — If an exact connection name is found, connects directly to that host.
• redial22 <folder-name> — If an exact folder name is found (case-insensitive), opens the UI showing only that folder and its subfolders/connections.

If the argument does not match any connection or folder, an error message is shown.