SSH Pilot is a user-friendly, modern and lightweight SSH connection manager for Linux and macOS, with an integrated terminal and a file manager.

• Features
• Download
  • Debian/Ubuntu APT Repository
  • Debian/Ubuntu (Manual Install)
  • Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE COPR Repository
  • Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE (Manual Install)
  • Flatpak
  • Arch Linux
  • macOS
• Minimum Requirements
• Run from Source
• Runtime Dependencies
• Testing
• Telegram Channel
• Special Thanks
• Support Development

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• Tabbed interface
• Intuitive, minimal UI with keyboard navigation and shortcuts
• File management using SFTP
• Organize servers in groups
• Option to use the built-in terminal or your favorite one
• Broadcast commands to all open tabs
• Full support for Local, Remote and Dynamic port forwarding
• SCP support for quickly uploading or downloading files to/from remote servers
• Keypair generation and copying to remote servers (ssh-copy-id)
• Support for running remote and local commands upon login
• Secure storage for credentials via libsecret on Linux; no secret (password or passphrase) is copied to clipboard or saved to plain text
• Privacy toggle to show/hide ip addresses/hostnames in the main window
• Light/Dark interface themes
• Customizable terminal font and color schemes
• Load/save standard .ssh/config entries (Or use dedicated configuration file)
• Free software (GPL v3 license)

1. Add the GPG key:

curl -fsSL https://mfat.github.io/sshpilot-ppa/pubkey.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/sshpilot-ppa.gpg

2. Add the repository:

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/sshpilot-ppa.gpg arch=amd64] https://mfat.github.io/sshpilot-ppa any main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sshpilot-ppa.list

3. Update and install:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install sshpilot

For more information, visit: https://mfat.github.io/sshpilot-ppa/

Latest release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

This repository provides automatic updates for SSH Pilot on RPM-based distributions.

dnf copr enable mahdif62/sshpilot
dnf install sshpilot

Latest release can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

Available on Flathub

OR in a terminal type:

flatpak install flathub io.github.mfat.sshpilot

Arch Linux package via AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sshpilot

paru -S sshpilot

or

yay -S sshpilot

Download the dmg file from the releases section https://github.com/mfat/sshpilot/releases/

You can also run the app from source. Install the modules listed in requirements.txt and a fairly recent version of GNOME and it should run.

python3 run.py

To enable verbose debugging output, run the app with the --verbose flag:

python3 run.py --verbose

Install system GTK/libadwaita/VTE GI bindings (do not use pip for these).

Debian/Ubuntu (minimum versions)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install \
  python3 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo \
  libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.6) gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (>= 4.6) \
  libadwaita-1-0 (>= 1.4) gir1.2-adw-1 (>= 1.4) \
  libvte-2.91-gtk4-0 (>= 0.70) gir1.2-vte-3.91 (>= 0.70) \
  libsecret-1-0 gir1.2-secret-1 \
  python3-paramiko python3-cryptography sshpass ssh-askpass

Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

sudo dnf install \
  python3 python3-gobject \
  gtk4 libadwaita \
  vte291-gtk4 \
  libsecret \
  python3-paramiko python3-cryptography sshpass openssh-askpass

libsecret handles secure credential storage on Linux via the Secret Service API.

Run from source

python3 run.py

Enable verbose debugging with:

python3 run.py --verbose

• Unit & integration:

  pytest -m "not e2e"

• End-to-end (Dogtail, requires X11/AT-SPI):

  dbus-run-session -- xvfb-run -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" pytest -m e2e tests_e2e

https://t.me/sshpilot

• Elibugy as the primary sponsor of the project
• Behnam Tavakkoli, Chalist and Kalpase, Ramin Najjarbashi, Farid and Narbeh for testing
• Icon designed by Blisterexe

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