I built essh: a Rust SSH client with a real TUI

Posted by Potential-Access-595@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 11 comments

I’ve been working on essh, a pure-Rust SSH client with:

TUI dashboard

Concurrent sessions

Password/key/agent auth

Host monitoring

Connection diagnostics

It’s meant to make terminal-based server work feel more like a real operational workspace instead of one disconnected shell at a time.

Install:

cargo install essh

Repo:

https://github.com/matthart1983/essh

Would love feedback from Rust/Linux/infra folks.

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skreak@reddit

But why tho? I use a single SSH session with PuTTY to a jump box and then run tmux, which has multi-shell, hell it even has mouse support where I can actually click on the different 'tabs' within my shell. Best of all when my vpn inevitably disconnects I can just log back in and re-attach to that tmux... same with GNU Screen...

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AceBlade258@reddit

It has to be asked: is this written with/by AI? Because there are many things about this that look like it was, and it's very dishonest of you to not represent that up front.

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