ssh-seed

A command line tool to generate ssh authenticaiton keys and add them to the ssh agent automatically.

Description

It is boring and tiring to generate many ssh passphrases and authenticaiton keys and add them to the ssh agent. This tool executes that task automatically.

Demo (Gif Animation)

https://giphy.com/gifs/demo-ssh-seed-xUPGcnBZ18P2IchhoQ

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1. Install
2. Create a configuration file skelton
3. Create multiple passphrases and authenticaiton keys and add keys to the ssh agent by one command (not interactive)

Requirements

• ssh-add
• ssh-keygen
• expect
• node

Install

$ npm i -g ssh-seed

Usage

To see All available options and subcommand, please see here.

1. Create the configuration file.

$ ssh-seed init

2. After edit the configuration file, run ssh-seed

$ ssh-seed

Running ssh-seed with no command will run the 'run' subcommand. The 'run' subcommand creates passphrases and authentication keys and adds keys to ssh-agent.

If you want only to create passphrases and authentication keys but not to add keys to ssh-agent, use the 'keygen' command.

$ ssh-seed keygen

The 'keygen' command was added in v1.1.0 .

If you want only to add existing keys to ssh-agent but not to create new passphrases and authentication keys, use the 'add' command.

$ ssh-seed add

The 'add' command was added in v1.2.0 .

Configuration options

Please see comments of the configuration file.

Configuration file search

When the ssh-seed command is run, the configuration file ssh-seed.yml is searched from the current directory to the root directory in order. If it is found once, the search is stopped. If it is not found, an error is occured.

ssh-seed.pass.yml

When the ssh-seed command generate the authenticaiton keys, at the same time passphrases of them are generated and written in the ssh-seed.pass.yml. The ssh-seed.pass.yml is generated in the directory where ssh-seed.yml is.

Change Log

Please see here. This change log is generated automatically with standard-version.

Contributing

1. Fork (https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/ssh-seed/fork)
2. Create a feature branch
3. Commit your changes
4. Rebase your local changes against the master branch
5. Run test suite with the npm test command and confirm that it passes
6. Create a new Pull Request

License

MIT

Author

Suzuki Shunsuke