SSH Vault

SSH Vault is a compact PowerShell WinForms app for managing and launching SSH hosts from your local OpenSSH config on Windows.

It was built as an SSH shortcut and bookmark tool for an OpenSSH-based workflow with Bitwarden-managed SSH keys.

Screenshots

Default Host View

Features

• Reads hosts from %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config
• Supports Include directives in SSH config files
• Starts SSH sessions via cmd.exe
• Search and filter hosts
• Multi-tag support per host
• Include and exclude tag filters
• Optional sorting by:
  • host name
  • tag, then host name
• Grouped host view when tag sorting is enabled
• Host management menu for creating and deleting hosts
• Reusable tags
• Persistent window size and position
• Persistent language and sorting settings
• German and English UI
• Built-in version check and self-update from GitHub

Requirements

• Windows
• Windows PowerShell 5.1
• OpenSSH client (ssh.exe) available in PATH

Usage

Run the app:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\ssh-vault.ps1

SSH Config

SSH Vault reads hosts from:

%USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config

Example:

Host web-prod
    HostName 203.0.113.10
    User root
    Port 22

The app also resolves OpenSSH Include directives and shows hosts from included config files.

Host Management

You can manage hosts directly in the UI:

• Host opens a menu with:
  • Neu
  • Loeschen
• Neu creates a new Host block in the SSH config
• Loeschen removes the selected host from the source config file

If a Host line contains multiple aliases, SSH Vault removes only the selected alias from that line.

Tags and Filters

Each host can have multiple tags.

Available functions:

• assign and remove tags
• reuse previously created tags
• filter by included tags
• filter by excluded tags
• combine tag filters with text search

When sorting by tag, the host list is grouped by tag.

Hosts without tags are shown in a separate group.

Settings

The Settings tab contains:

• language selection (Deutsch, English)
• sorting mode selection
• update check
• self-update from GitHub

Default language is Deutsch.

Note: after changing the language, restart the app.

Info

The Info tab contains:

• app name
• author
• repository link
• current version

Local State

SSH Vault creates these files next to ssh-vault.ps1 if they do not exist:

• ssh-host-meta.json
• ssh-host-ui.json

They store:

• host tags
• known tags
• active include/exclude filters
• window size and position
• selected language
• selected sorting mode

Updates

SSH Vault compares the local $AppVersion with the version in:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kanuracer/ssh-vault/main/ssh-vault.ps1

An update is only offered when the GitHub version is newer than the local version.

Before updating, SSH Vault asks for confirmation and creates a backup:

ssh-vault.ps1.bak