Go Menu

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.

Requirements

The Go Menu currently requires Bash and dialog.

Installation

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

Configuration

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 to whoami.
• 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

License

The Go Menu is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more info.