pac – Perl Auto Connector
Synopsis
pac [-start_tray]
Description
pac is a (simple?) GUI to manage/launch connections to remote machines with:
– Configurable [Pre|Post]-connection local commands execution.
– Configurable list of macros (commands) to send to connected client.
– Configurable list of macros (commands) to execute locally when connected.
– Configurable list of conditional executions on connected machine via ‘Expect’:
. forget about SSH certificates
. chain multiple ssh connections
. automate tunnels creation
. etc
– Ability to connect to machines through a Proxy server!
– Scripting (Perl language), just like SecureCRT, but much better! :P
– Wake On LAN capabilities
– TABBED/WINDOWED terminals
– Possibility to *CLUSTER* terminals!!
– Local and Global variables, eg.: write down a password once, use it ANY where, centralizing its modification for faster changes! use them for:
. password vault
. reusing connection strings
. etc
– Seamless Gnome/Gtk integration.
– Tray icon for ‘right button’ quick launching of managed connections.
– Written in Perl/Gtk (wait, *is* that a feature? Well, it is for me! ;=)
Options
- -start_tray
- Initialise pac minimized to tray.
Files
~/.pac/
- Per user configuration directory.
Environment
Uses next Gnome’s configuration paths:
- /system/http_proxy/host
- Takes this proxy path
- /system/http_proxy/port
- Takes this proxy port
- /system/http_proxy/authentication_user
- Takes this proxy user name
- /system/http_proxy/authentication_password
- Takes this proxy password
Bugs
Well… I thinks that by this version, there should not be any known bugs but, I’m sure you ‘will’ find some. If so, please, let me know!
Author
David Torrejón Vaquerizas <david.tv [at] gmail.com>
Visit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pacmanager/
https://sites.google.com/site/davidtv/
See Also
ssh(1),
sftp(1),
telnet(1)
rdesktop(1)
vncviewer(1)
remote-tty(1)
cu(1)
