handy-sshd

Portable SSH Server

Install on Ubuntu/Debian

wget https://github.com/nwtgck/handy-sshd/releases/download/v0.4.0/handy-sshd-0.4.0-linux-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i handy-sshd-0.4.0-linux-amd64.deb

Install on Mac

brew install nwtgck/handy-sshd/handy-sshd

Get more executables in the releases.

Examples

# Listen on 2222 and accept user name "john" with password "mypass"
handy-sshd -p 2222 -u john:mypass

# Listen on 2222 and accept user name "john" without password
handy-sshd -p 2222 -u john:

# Listen on 2222 and accept users "john" and "alice" without password
handy-sshd -p 2222 -u john: -u alice:

# Listen on unix domain socket
handy-sshd --unix-socket /tmp/my-unix-socket -u john:

Features

An SSH client can use

Shell/Interactive shell
Local port forwarding (ssh -L)
Remote port forwarding (ssh -R)
SOCKS proxy (dynamic port forwarding)
SFTP
SSHFS
Unix domain socket (local/remote port forwarding)

All features are enabled by default. You can allow only some of them using permission flags.

Permissions

There are several permissions:

--allow-direct-streamlocal
--allow-direct-tcpip
--allow-execute
--allow-sftp
--allow-streamlocal-forward
--allow-tcpip-forward

All permissions are allowed when nothing is specified. The log shows "allowed: " and "NOT allowed: " permissions as follows:

$ handy-sshd -u "john:"
2023/08/11 11:40:44 INFO listening on :2222...
2023/08/11 11:40:44 INFO allowed: "tcpip-forward", "direct-tcpip", "execute", "sftp", "streamlocal-forward", "direct-streamlocal"
2023/08/11 11:40:44 INFO NOT allowed: none

For example, specifying --allow-direct-tcpip and --allow-execute allows only them:

$ handy-sshd -u "john:" --allow-direct-tcpip --allow-execute
2023/08/11 11:41:03 INFO listening on :2222...
2023/08/11 11:41:03 INFO allowed: "direct-tcpip", "execute"
2023/08/11 11:41:03 INFO NOT allowed: "tcpip-forward", "sftp", "streamlocal-forward", "direct-streamlocal"

--help

Portable SSH server

Usage:
  handy-sshd [flags]

Examples:
# Listen on 2222 and accept user name "john" with password "mypass"
handy-sshd -u john:mypass

# Listen on 22 and accept the user without password
handy-sshd -p 22 -u john:

Permissions:
All permissions are allowed by default.
For example, specifying --allow-direct-tcpip and --allow-execute allows only them.

Flags:
      --allow-direct-streamlocal    client can use Unix domain socket local forwarding (ssh -L)
      --allow-direct-tcpip          client can use local forwarding (ssh -L) and SOCKS proxy (ssh -D)
      --allow-execute               client can use shell/interactive shell
      --allow-sftp                  client can use SFTP and SSHFS
      --allow-streamlocal-forward   client can use Unix domain socket remote forwarding (ssh -R)
      --allow-tcpip-forward         client can use remote forwarding (ssh -R)
  -h, --help                        help for handy-sshd
      --host string                 SSH server host to listen (e.g. 127.0.0.1)
  -p, --port uint16                 port to listen (default 2222)
      --shell string                Shell
      --unix-socket string          Unix domain socket to listen
  -u, --user stringArray            SSH user name (e.g. "john:mypass")
  -v, --version                     show version