Remote connection management for SSH

[mittalyashu]

Option to manage remote connections.

[elviskahoro]

Just interested in general, but what do you mean by this? Is there remote management in another terminal or app that I could look at to get an idea?

[ToontjeM]

Look at how Wave does this.

[gitthangbaby]

or any other terminal. I don't see a point of terminal without SSH.

[mittalyashu]

• https://termius.com
• https://coreshell.app

[Marvinus]

As well as profiles in Iterm on macos

[ashebanow]

Similarly, Gnome Ptyxis adds support for container shells as well. Its nice to be able to automatically get the list of local containers and remote ssh hosts from the system (via docker socket, ssh config, etc).

From a GUI perspective, I think Windows Terminal has the best UX for choosing profiles as part of opening a new tab/window

[djsipe]

For my part, it would be nice if there was a way to configure connections to remote servers that you frequently access. Some means of prefilling the hostname and other connection details that would be part of the ssh command. Then a simple way to be able to pick one of those (maybe from the command pallet?).

[elviskahoro]

From Shaqaruden via Discord: https://discord.com/channels/851854972600451112/852249738002956311/943265788779954217

Not sure if this has been asked for already but I would like to see adding SSH connections to warp to connect to within a couple clicks would be nice. Similar to Termius or Tabby Terminal

[elviskahoro]

Because I usually use SSH to connect to the server remotely for development work, I hope wrap can save server objects (including IP address, user identity, etc.) so that I can easily connect to the server.

[elviskahoro]

I've been really liking the work coming out of Charm: https://github.com/charmbracelet
I think we should work on some deep integrations with some of their tools like wishlist and wish.

• https://github.com/charmbracelet/wishlist
• https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish

[jineshqa]

Something nice would be similar to profiles in iTerm, which can be configured to SSH into a remote client.

[michbsd]

+1
Possibility to add configured aliases into bootstrapped shell.
E.g. I have an alias as such:
alias la='ls -al'

I would like for Warp to automatically add this alias on all remote hosts I connect to

[spotashn]

I think being able to type from the terminal ssh it checks to see if a profile exists for that host and applies it. Much more simple then having to select from a list of saved profiles.

[elviskahoro]

https://github.com/brockgr/csshx

[elviskahoro]

From @rana01645

Describe the solution you'd like?

It would be great to use local aliases in server.
For instance I use these following aliases in my local for git usage
alias gst='git stash'
alias gsp='git stash pop'
alias gs='git status'
alias gp='git push'

Would be great if I can use this same commands when I ssh to server!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No response

Additional context

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[elviskahoro]

From @neongreen via #1078

Discord username (optional)

No response

Describe the solution you'd like?

Currently if I'm in an SSH session and I close my laptop, after re-opening it I might get "broken pipe" or just a stuck session.

I'd love if Warp's custom SSH support had auto-reconnect. I know that Mosh exists, but having this built-in without having to install Mosh on the server would be much nicer.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No response

Additional context

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[flaxton]

I use mosh daily, with tmux over ssh. Formerly on iTerm, now on Warp.

I don't understand why you'd want to duplicate what mosh does, instead of just using it? It's quite easy to use and install, in my experience.

Many times, when I close my laptop on one network, then open it on another, it has killed all of my mosh sessions.

On iTerm, this does not happen, I can go weeks on many different networks without a disconnection.

Same thing with Blink terminal on my iPad Pro, the connections remain for long periods of time.

So there's something different about the way Warp handles ssh or mosh connections, not sure, but it is annoying.

[ToontjeM]

I opened #1736 and wanted to drop this idea here as well. This is a request for considering implementing SSH multiplexing which makes working in different panes, tabs or windows on remote hosts easier.
Terminal emulators like iTerm2 or Terminal honor ssh multiplexing configurations. I think 1. Warp needs to honor multiplexing and 2. Warp can enhace it by automatically logging in to the remote host using the connection the new tab was launched from.

[elviskahoro]

From #1815

Discord username (optional)

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Describe the solution you'd like?

It would be really nice to have a workflow that supports interactive SSH as a base.

For example, I could define the following workflow commands:


command: |-
    ssh user@machine
    curl http://file.mydomain.tld > /tmp/file
    cat /tmp/file

The first step of the workflow would be to create a SSH session and the second and third step would be executed in the SSH session.

Unless I'm mistaken, as the first command is opening an interactive SSH session, the other two commands won't be executed until the first one returns/exits.

Or even better, allow us to use workflows on a remote SSH environment !

Amazing tool by the way!

### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

```text
Just making it easier to reproduce commands on a remote environment.

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How important is this feature to you?

4

Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087

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[elviskahoro]

It would be great if Warp supported drag-and-drop for sending files to the remote host if there is an open SSH connection. In other words, suppose I am connected to my cloud VM via SSH in Warp, and I am looking at a certain directory. If I were to drag a file from my Mac into Warp, it would get transferred to that directory on the cloud VM.

[GaborTorma]

+1

[qiulang]

It is quite annoying that I now use 3 terminal tools, warp mainly because I like it let me mouse positioning anywhere in command input, Termius for ssh management and easy sftp, iTerm2 as I have many profiles set already and I still need them.

So far Termius is my favorite but it does not show unicode character correctly, which seems to be an easy bug to fix but them did not.

[dereknorrbom]

+1

[lloydbayley]

+1

[lloydbayley]

Here's a bit of code for the mac I wrote using whiptail (which you will have to install on the mac) to help me out in the interim.
It's NOT perfect but it works for me and maybe others might find some use for it.
Note: It does not survive a screen split. If you do a split, you'll have to type ss again and choose the server.

Hack it to bits, bend it, break it into 4000 pieces or roll it into a tube. Totally up to you what you do with it. Just might be helpful to someone. I have a file in my user directory on the mac (where Warp drops to on my config).

My file is called ss and I chmod +x ss to make it executable.
When I launch Warp and it drops to the user directory, I just execute ./ss and the menu comes up.
You could also put it in your path and you won't need the ./ but I've been lazy :)

Just a thought! :)

#! /bin/bash

clear

while [ 1 ]
do
CHOICE=$(
whiptail --title "SSH Remote Machines" --menu "Make your choice" 16 100 9 \
	"1)" "Home Control VM"   \
	"2)" "Extra Home Control VM"  \
	"3)" "Sprinkler Control"  \
	"4)" "[None]" \
	"9)" "Exit"  3>&2 2>&1 1>&3	
)


case $CHOICE in
	"1)")
		clear
		ssh admin@homecontrol-vm

	;;


        "2)")
                clear
		ssh admin@extra-homecontrol-vm
        ;;


	"3)")
		clear
		ssh pi@sprinkler-control
	;;


        "4)")
                clear
        ;;



	"9)")
		clear
		exit
        ;;
esac

done
exit

[keroro520]

SSH management is important, please.

[The-Man11]

🙌🏼

[AfshinHonari]

+1

[nuno4793]

+1

For me I would love to be able to have something similar to the Windows Terminal Profiles which allow me to leverage my .ssh/config for.

Without this me or my other colleagues couldn't ever adopt Warp terminal

[damago1]

I have installed terminus and immediately I started to look up how to save a list of my ssh connections. I thought that just the user interface is so weird that I do not understand something. For me such option is SO OBVIOUS that I could not believe that it does not exist. It is a terminal. You use terminal to connect to machines. Most warp users are users who do a bit more than type single ls/dir, and usually work with different machines.

[pwinntii]

It has been more than three years. This is the fifth-highest-voted of All Time, the highest-voted by far under Product Ideas, and has had no response I've seen. It feels like the Warp team cares more about monetizable AI features than basic functionality used by the majority of terminal users.

I'm out. I've tried to make this work for years now, and it's just as clumsy today as when I started. Maybe slightly more clumsy, given that the AI features have gotten more intrusive.

I'm uninstalling Warp from my three macs and going back to iTerm 2 full-time. Good luck, Warp team.

[earmellin]

I'm very tempted to do the same

[lopongoaca]

I'll to do the same, uninstalls wrap and install Ghostty.

[rithviknishad]

I've already switched to ghostty couple weeks back

[nuno4793]

I am very tempted to do the same tbh, I have tried but all these very basic functionality being missing is kinda a no no.

In my case I tried Windows and Linux.

[ashebanow]

I’m curious what missing functionality you consider essential in kitty, ghostly, etc. I really like warp’s blocks, command line editing, etc, but I don’t consider those essential.

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[nuno4793]

For me, it is the simple/basic things that Warp doesn't have. A the moment the deal break is the inability to have "profiles" for ssh connections, something like Windows Terminal wt profiles

This already made me stop using it when I tried back a few months in WSL, I decided to give it another go with the Windows version and I didn't last two days on it. I found myself going back to Windows Terminal.

Don't get me wrong, Warp is amazing, what the guys did is no small achievement and, but I don't really understand how something like this is not present.

[ashebanow]

Oh, ok, gotcha. I thought you meant that kitty/iterm/etc were missing critical features. My bad.

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[ashebanow]

By the way, for those watching the bug, you can sort of emulate this functionality using launch configurations. It isn't nearly as convenient as the popup in the window titlebar, but it works.

[nuno4793]

@ashebanow ,

Being honest I did try to do that but couldn't figure it out. Also, I created a Launch configuration, and I can't see it from warp. Maybe it's me doing something wrong but it would be interesting to have a more detailed example in the docs.

[hilsonp]

The only reason I open a local terminal is to run git or brew commands. Sometimes, rarely, I'll open it to do fancy text treatment or work with curl an jq.
The rest of the day, I spend hours in a terminal window managing complete networks.

To do so efficiently, I need a connection manager that let me:

• put connections in a tree structure
• give meaningful names to the connections (and not simply the hostname as those can be cryptic)
• give an icon or at least a color (this helps me differentiate environments (DEV vs TEST vs PROD for example))
• be able to force the pane/tab to respect the connection name/color

I always had this in all terminal emulators I used.
I've been searching for a while where it was "hidden" in Warp to finally come to the conclusion that it does not exist at all.

Warp is mind blowing for anything else but this was such a surprise for me.
This is a mandatory basic feature I need to manage all my customers hosts and I'll have to wait that warp offers something on this side before I can really use it.

Thank you for the great work !

[earmellin]

done like this it would be absolutely perfect :)