The Go Menu is a command line utility providing a menu driven interface to connect to various servers. It uses a CSV file to create a dialog for selecting a given resource.
This may be useful if:
- You have a lot of servers to which you frequently connect via SSH.
- You run an SSH server from which connections to other servers are allowed.
- You enjoy graphical menus.
The Go Menu currently requires Bash and dialog.
Simply run make install from the gomenu directory. By default the go command is installed in /usr/local/bin. But you can change this by specify a prefix like so:
make install PREFIX=/path/to/my/preferred/bin
The go command reads resources from a CSV file located in one of the following locations:
$HOME/.gomenu/resources.csv/etc/gomenu/resources.csv/opt/gomenu/resources.csv
These files are read in the order above. The columns of the CSV are as follows:
name- The name of the resource. Required. Cannot contain a space.organization- A short code or abbreviation representing the organization that owns the resource. Required. Limited to 3 or 4 characters.comment- A brief comment or description of the resource. Required. Limited to about 30 characters.host- The actual host name that is the target of the connection. Required.port- TCP port. Required, but defaults to 22.user- The user name for the connection. Optional. Defaults towhoami.protocol- Not implemented. Defaults to ssh. This is a placeholder for possibly implementing other protocols in the future.key_file- The name of the key file to use for the connection.
Here some examples:
Academic,University of Education,List Server,listserv.uof.edu,,,ssh,uofe.pem
MsPiggy,ACME Inc.,Windows File Server,mspiggy.example.com,999,admin,ssh,
RedHat6,ABC Corp,Web Server,redhat6.example.com,4894,deploy,ssh,id_rsa
Venus,ACME Inc,Web Server,venus.example.com,4894,bob,ssh,bob.pem
The Go Menu is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more info.