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mcp-ssh-manager MCP Server

SSH server management for agents, with per-server read-only and allowlist security modes

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Published as mcp-ssh-manager on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

22 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

bug: ssh_execute_sudo ignores configured SUDO_PASSWORD due to sudo_password/sudoPassword field mismatch

Symptom

ssh_execute_sudo ignores the per-server SUDO_PASSWORD configured in .env and always falls back to running a bare sudo <command> with no piped password. On a remote host with no TTY on the SSH exec channel and no askpass helper configured, this fails with:

sudo: A terminal is required to authenticate

even though SSH_SERVER_<NAME>_SUDO_PASSWORD is set correctly and the config loader parses it without error.

Impact

Any user relying on the documented `SSH_SERVE

Read the thread · 2026-07-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

ssh_execute with timeout < 300000ms aborts at 30s instead of the requested timeout

Summary

Any ssh_execute call with a timeout argument less than 300000 ms is silently capped to 30 s. The local-side abort fires at 30 s while the remote timeout NNN sh -c wrapper is still running with the requested value, so the user sees Command timeout after 30000ms even though they asked for 240000.

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Windows global install: ssh-manager fails due /bin/bash shim/path handling

Summary

On Windows (PowerShell), global install works, but ssh-manager CLI fails immediately because the generated npm shim calls /bin/bash.exe (or /bin/bash) with invalid path handling.

This blocks Quick Start commands like ssh-manager server add on native Windows shells.

Environment

Repro steps

  1. `npm install -g

Read the thread · 2026-04-08 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Shell prompt configuration

I'm connecting to some hosts that have interactive steps before reaching to shell. See example below

  1. Would be nice to configure some autoreply during startup? Or some keystroke to be sent while logging in? In my case I have to input 'N' and (or just ) to continue. Now I'm getting timeout while starting the persistent session with ssh_session_start.
  2. Would be nice to configure the shell prompt instead of classic one (ex. -->)
Last unsuccessful login: Fri Mar 20 14:09:50 E

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/20) · 2026-03-31 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Configuration does not work when installed globally

Following the README after a `npm install -g mcp-ssh-manager`, and then having symlinked `/usr/local/bin/ssh-manager` to `/usr/lib/node_modules/mcp-ssh-manager/cli/ssh-manager` as a workaround for #18 , adding a server fails:

$ ssh-manager server add ... Configuration Summary

Name: something Host: something.example.com User: jantman Port: 22 Auth: key Key: /hom

Read the thread · 2026-03-28 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

功能请求：为 ssh_servers 配置增加 group 字段

需求背景

目前 .env / TOML 配置中每台服务器的定义都是扁平结构（例如 [ssh_servers.gitea_runner34]），没有原生的分组字段。虽然项目已经提供了 ssh_group_manage / .server-groups.json 这套独立的分组机制，但它与服务器定义本身是分离的两份数据，存在以下痛点：

  1. 无法从服务器配置本身直接导出/导入分组信息：当需要把 ssh-manager 的配置迁移/同步到其他工具（比如把服务器清单导出给团队内部的堡垒机管理工具、或从其他 SSH 管理工具的分组结构导入进来）时，ssh_servers 表本身不带分组标签，只能额外维护一份 .server-groups.json 做映射，容易出现两份数据不同步。
  2. 按组查看/操作不够直观：ssh_list_servers 的输出里没有分组信息，如果想快速筛选"某个环境/项目下的所有服务器"，只能人肉看命名前缀或者去查 .server-groups.json。

期望的方案

在服务器定义里增加一个可选的 `gr

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Add ForwardAgent support per server config

Summary

Add support for SSH agent forwarding (ForwardAgent yes equivalent) on a per-server basis. This allows processes running on the remote server to authenticate to other SSH hosts using the keys held in the local ssh-agent — a common requirement, e.g., running git clone over SSH on a remote server that needs a local GitHub key.

Background

The ssh2 npm library already supports this via the agentForward connection option:

agentForward - boolean - Set to true to use OpenSS

Read the thread · 2026-07-12 · closed · external user · 1 comment

ssh_db_query (MySQL): row_count is off by one (counts the wrapper line, not result rows)

Summary

ssh_db_query reports row_count one greater than the actual number of rows: 1 row → row_count: 2, 13 rows → 14, and a 0-row result → row_count: 2.

Affected code

src/index.js (v3.5.0), in the db-query handler:

const output = result.stdout.trim();
const lines = output.split('\n');
...
row_count: lines.length,

For MySQL, buildMySQLQueryCommand() wraps results with awk 'BEGIN{print "["} ... END{print "]"}', so output looks like:

[
{"row":1,"data":"...

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/45) · 2026-06-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### ssh_db_query (MySQL): backtick-quoted identifiers are shell-evaluated, corrupting queries (cross-DB joins return empty) + command-injection risk

## Summary
For MySQL, `ssh_db_query` builds the remote command by interpolating the raw SQL into a **double-quoted** shell string (`mysql ... -e "${query}" ...`). The remote shell therefore evaluates backticks `` `...` `` (command substitution) and `$...` before `mysql` ever sees the query. Any SQL that uses backtick-quoted identifiers — e.g. a hyphenated database name `` `my-db`.Table `` — is silently corrupted and returns empty/incorrect results **with no error**. The same construction also al

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/44) · 2026-06-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Cryptographic server verification for mcp-ssh-manager — BHC-S attestation in 3 lines

Your v3.4.1 changelog caught my eye. You added curve25519-sha256, rsa-sha2-512, and the ETM HMAC variants to support modern OpenSSH 9.x handshakes. That's careful cryptographic work. Most MCP maintainers don't think at that level.

There's a gap one layer above SSH, though. When Claude Code connects to mcp-ssh-manager, it trusts by hostname that the server is your published code. The server has direct SSH access to production. But there's no cryptographic proof that the MCP process itself hasn't

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/37) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Bug: Environment variable names mismatch between documentation/code and CLI-generated config

### Bug: Environment variable names mismatch between documentation/code and CLI-generated config

**Version:** 3.4.0

**Problem:**
`config-loader.js` looks for environment variables with names:
- `SSH_SERVER_{NAME}_KEYPATH` (no underscore between DEFAULT and DIR)
- `SSH_SERVER_{NAME}_DEFAULT_DIR`

But CLI and documentation suggest different names:
- `SSH_SERVER_{NAME}_KEY_PATH` (with underscore)
- `SSH_SERVER_{NAME}_DEFAULT_DIR` (correct)

**Code location:** `src/config-loader.js` lines 139-142

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/33) · 2026-05-12 · open · external user · 1 comment

### server add accepts hyphens in server names, producing invalid env var keys that MCP silently ignores

## Summary

`ssh-manager server add` accepts hyphens in server names (the prompt itself suggests `web-server` as an example), but hyphens are invalid in POSIX env var names. The resulting `SSH_SERVER_WEB-SERVER_*` keys are silently ignored by the MCP loader, while the CLI parser still reads them. Result: `ssh-manager server list` shows the server, but MCP clients see zero configured servers.

## Reproduction

```bash
npm install -g mcp-ssh-manager
ssh-manager server add
# Server name: web-server

[Read the thread](https://github.com/bvisible/mcp-ssh-manager/issues/25) · 2026-04-27 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for mcp-ssh-manager](/mcp/mcp-ssh-manager/issues) — of 22 qualified upstream.

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