[sdovan1]

I often need to login to colleagues' machines at work, but I find that their settings are not what I am familiar with. So I wrote an SSH wrapper in POSIX shell which tars dotfiles into a base64 string, passes it to SSH, and decodes / setups on the remote temp directory. Automatically remove when session ends.

Supported: .profile, .vimrc, .bashrc, .tmux.conf, etc.

This idea comes from kyrat[1]; passing files via a base64 string is a really cool approach.

[1]: https://github.com/fsquillace/kyrat/

[Joker_vD]

   scp my-precious-dotfiles remote:~
   trap 'ssh remote rm my-precious-dotfiles' EXIT
   ssh remote

Or you can even bake the trap into the remote bash's invocation, although that'd be a bit harder.

[stephenlf]

That overwrites the remote dotfiles. Any workarounds?

[alsetmusic]

I came across something similar a few months ago. I pieced together a working hybrid by patching in parts from an older release with the latest version. I didn't ever work out if the latest version failed because of something in my environment or not, but I'm on a Mac fwiw.

https://github.com/cdown/sshrc

[fragmede]

> I often need to login to colleagues' machines at work, but I find that their settings are not what I am familiar with

I'd hate to jump to conclusions, but what username are you looking into what machines with for that to be an issue?

[amelius]

Ok, but what if your colleague does not have Vim installed?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a tool that brings files over to the local computer, starts Vim on them, and then copies them back?

[Joker_vD]

That starts to sound like using VS Code in remote mode.

[QuinnyPig]

I can’t recall encountering a system in the last 15 years that didn’t have vim (or at least vi for esoteric things) on it.

[sdovan1]

We usually work on the VM with daily-built ISO. For example, I would compile and upload Java program to the frontend team member's VM, and type "srt" for "systemctl restart tomcat."

[xuhu]

How much time does it add when running e.g. "shittp user@lan-host uname" ?