shcrt

SecureCRT session browser for GNU/Linux and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

It should also work on macOS with some changes but YMMV.

At early stages, not heavily tested. Alpha quality.

Features

• Browse SecureCRT sessions
• Search through them
• Parse SSH sessions and generate a OpenSSH command line
• Password is automatically copied to clipboard if found

How to use

Arch Linux (including Arch on WSL)

AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/shcrt-git/

Other distributions (including WSL)

It should work both natively on GNU/Linux and on Windows under WSL, provided you have bash, python3, pycrypto for Python3 and your favorite dialog tool ((c)dialog works everywhere).

• Clone it with --recursive

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/Depau/shcrt.git
  

• If you forgot about it...

  git submodule init
  git submodule update
  

• Simply run the script:

  ./shcrt
  

Configuration

Configuration can be placed in ~/.shcrtrc. It must be a sourceable by bash, use bash syntax.

Custom GUI mode

export supermode=YOUR_CHOICE

It must be set to one of the GUI back-ends supported by EasyBashGUI.

At the time of writing, supported modes are:

• dialog: ncurses terminal based GUI (good for WSL)
• whiptail: another terminal based GUI (good for WSL)
• none: uses internal shell-based EBG GUI, which uses echo and read
• zenity: GTK-based GUI for GNOME-base desktops, with a Windows port (see below)
• yad, gtkdialog, xdialog: other GTK-based GUIs for GNOME-based desktops
• kdialog: Qt5-based GUI for KDE or Qt-based desktops

Needless to say, unless you're using none, the desired GUI back-end needs to be installed.

If you're using WSL and you don't want to use a terminal-based GUI, you need an X11 server such as VcXsrv. Otherwise you can use Zenity for Windows.

Zenity on Windows

The script includes an experimental wrapper for native Windows Zenity on WSL.

To make it work, you need to:

• Download WinZenity: https://github.com/maravento/winzenity
• Place it somewhere in your Windows drive (i.e. C:\Program Files\zenity.exe)
• Add this line to your ~/.shcrtrc:

  alias zenity.exe="'/mnt/c/path/to/your/zenity.exe'"
  # for example
  alias zenity.exe="'/mnt/c/Program Files/zenity.exe'"
  

• Notice how you need to put double quotes to take into account for the spaces in the file path.

Emojis

export emojis=YOUR_CHOICE

Force enable/disable emojis. Emojis are enabled by default on GNU/Linux, and disabled on WSL. If you're using a custom terminal that supports emojis you can force-enable them on Windows too.

• auto: always display emojis on GNU/Linux, disabled on WSL because of crappy terminal
• yes, no: force enable/disable

Custom SecureCRT config path

export crtconfig="/path/to/your/Config"

Overrides default SecureCRT config paths:

• GNU/Linux: ~/.vandyke/SecureCRT/Config
• Windows: %APPDATA%/VanDyke/Config (⇒ usually /mnt/c/Users/your.user/AppData/VanDyke/Config)

SFTP client helper

In order to run an SFTP client, a helper script/function must be provided. The helper needs to accept a ssh-like command line. It can be provided as a bash function or as a binary in $PATH.

By default, if nothing is provided the program will display an error message.

A FileZilla helper is provided and it should work on GNU/Linux and Windows on WSL. To enable it, add the following to your .shcrtrc:

function sftp_client_runner {
  run_filezilla "$@";
}

The FileZilla helper source code can be found in sftp_runners.sh

Default session action

export default_action="ask"

Sets an action that will always be run immediately when selecting a session. Default is ask. Available options are:

• ask: let user pick an action from a menu
• print: print session details to console and exit
• exec_ssh: execute ssh
• exec_sftp: execute SFTP helper (it needs to be provided)

Bugs

I expect it to be full of bugs; so should you.

Please report any bugs you find on GitHub :)