Ssh2

If your servers are 'permanent', then give them a short hostname and put them in your .ssh/config and DNS (or hosts file). 'ssh cron' or 'ssh archive' and connecting directly is…

I made it primarily for my temp servers, it's also useful if you keep restarting a box as the DNS name changes on reboot. As someone else also mentioned I think a nice addition…

Pack this up and get it on PyPI! Nice simple little script but quite inconvenient to get onto a system, especially if one prefers using package managers.

Nice work! Consider something like mkstemp() or mkdtemp() instead (really, it should be marked 'insecure' until updated.)…

The name is confusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell#Version_2.x

Nobody does a quick Google search for name clashes these days? "ssh2" is the name of the protocol, to distinguish from SSH protocol 1.0.

Agreed, ECSSH2 is either a convoluted replacement or a nice play on both technologies depending on how you look at it... although that could be confused with ECDSA - naming…

Nice idea, but needs a bit of refactoring: hardcoded paths like '/tmp/.ssh2_list' should not be used. This is insecure and wouldn't work on (most) multi user systems. Something…

Nice work! Consider something like mkstemp() or mkdtemp() instead (really, it should be marked 'insecure' until updated.)…

Yeah that's what I do too. How is ssh2 any better? Especially considering (IIRC) that tab-complete works for ~/.ssh/config .

Very useful. I'm currently using ~/.ssh/config. I gave nickname for the servers and all parameters are in the config: ``` Host my-foo HostName 54.xx.xx.xx User my_user…

I was about to post the same. ~/.ssh/config with identity files (certs) is the right way to ssh. And ssh config entries can be used in other software, for example I use them in mc.

Nice idea, but needs a bit of refactoring: hardcoded paths like '/tmp/.ssh2_list' should not be used. This is insecure and wouldn't work on (most) multi user systems. Something…

Since this is Python, you can use the built-in tempfile module to securely create/delete temporary files https://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html Additionally, a feature…

I made it primarily for my temp servers, it's also useful if you keep restarting a box as the DNS name changes on reboot. As someone else also mentioned I think a nice addition…

Pack this up and get it on PyPI! Nice simple little script but quite inconvenient to get onto a system, especially if one prefers using package managers.

Thanks for clarifying the reboot sequence, I do, however, stop/start instances on a regular basis to save cost. Also good to know VPC behaves differently in that respect. I'm…

I'm curious: why would I use this over just assigning DNS names to the instances?

DNS names where? How long does it take for the updates to get to whatever resolver you're using?

What stores the SSH private keys ? I hate having to manage my private keys across work machines.

A related tool, I wrote ish: https://github.com/grahamc/ish which lets you log in to a machine by name, tag, instance ID, AMI, etc.

Very useful. I'm currently using ~/.ssh/config. I gave nickname for the servers and all parameters are in the config: ``` Host my-foo HostName 54.xx.xx.xx User my_user…

I have all my servers listed in my .ssh/config file with nice short names. With a simple alias on the command "grep -A1 '^H' .ssh/config | grep -v '--'", I can display the full…

This is my take on this: uses a tagging convention on your EC2 instances. Can also run commands in parallel over a set of instances. https://github.com/madebymany/moltar…