Abilitiy to add arbitrary options

[keyneston]

SSH has a large collection of options that can be added to a host. See man ssh_config for a list.

It would be nice if when editing we could add and edit arbitrary options. As an example:

# Host *.dev.example.com
# IdentityFile /home/bob/.ssh/dev_id_rsa
# StrictHostKeyChecking no
# UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null

storm add '*.dev.example.com' -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" -o "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" -o "IdentityFile=/home/bob/.ssh/dev_id_rsa"

This would would also allow --id_file to be deprecated and instead use a standard format for adding options.

[emre]

That's a great idea. I will implement this with #19 probably next weekend. I just need free time to do it.

[emre]

cli library that storm uses is manage.py which does not support multiple values for a single argument.

I think about implementing this with a slight change on the usage example you suggested.

storm add vps root@emre.io -o "configOption=yes anotherConfigOption:1"

[keyneston]

The reason I suggested that particular syntax is because it mirrors the syntax for passing the values to scp/ssh themselves.

At the same time I understand the limitations in implementing it and in that context your suggestion path makes a lot of sense.

Granted I'd be very careful about what you use as a separator. For example SendEnv allows multiple environment variables to specified by separating the variables with white space.

[emre]

I decided to remove manage.py and use good, old argparse module for the new versions. It limits so much that brings more difficulty than I expected.

[emre]

It's up.

$ storm add web-prod web@webprod.com --o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" --o "UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" --o "IdentityFile=/home/bob/.ssh/dev_id_rsa"
success  web-prod added to your ssh config. you can connect it by typing "ssh web-prod".

$ storm search web-prod
Listing results for web-prod:
    web-prod -> web@webprod.com:22

You can try it after a "pip install stormssh --upgrade"