<![CDATA[did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?]]>did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?

i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/7730973d-c781-45bb-87f6-107a21bcdc85/did-you-know-that-ssh-has-a-little-known-secret-menuRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 13:53:44 GMTMon, 09 Mar 2026 15:59:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:31:50 GMT]]>@bob_zim @agowa338 @rebane2001 *if* your keyboard layout has a functioning tilde key (a deadkey might output something else and it's nontrivial to make it output just the character itself (and it depends on the OS how it deals with it))

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116200407729738855https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116200407729738855Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:47 GMT]]>@rebane2001 I'm forever annoyed that the command sequence starter is a newline of all things.

Telnet's UX was a lot better in this regard imo.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116200399673564745https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/phl/statuses/116200399673564745Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:11:04 GMT]]>@agowa338 @rebane2001 MacOS and Windows both have plain OpenSSH, and the listed escape sequences work on both.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/bob_zim/statuses/116200326055167547https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/bob_zim/statuses/116200326055167547Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:11:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:59:20 GMT]]>@rebane2001

Ooh, useful! Thanks!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/Walrus/statuses/116200279942872915https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.wales/users/Walrus/statuses/116200279942872915Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:59:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:52:07 GMT]]>@rebane2001 Always know that there is a key combination to close ssh connection
Also always forget what key is

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://qdon.space/users/jarm/statuses/116200251584205825https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://qdon.space/users/jarm/statuses/116200251584205825Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:52:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:47:43 GMT]]>@rebane2001
I learned about this escape feature during my Solaris sysadmin training in 2007, but never used it and had forgotten all about it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/knu/statuses/116200234221948148https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/knu/statuses/116200234221948148Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:47:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:42:43 GMT]]>@rebane2001

Oh and if I recall correctly the keyboard combination is also different on macOS too...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116200214568514803https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116200214568514803Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:42:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:41:36 GMT]]>@rebane2001

Yes, but did you know that it is basically inaccessible on Keyboard layouts like e.g. de-DE?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116200210193449217https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/116200210193449217Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:41:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:28:21 GMT]]>@rebane2001
and of course the examples are my little pony references 😄 my hat's off to you.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ozzelot/statuses/116200158084712799https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ozzelot/statuses/116200158084712799Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:28:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu? on Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:16:15 GMT]]>@rebane2001 @bert_hubert I wasn’t aware that there’s more than `~.` 🤯

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/schrotthaufen/statuses/116200110545796476https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/schrotthaufen/statuses/116200110545796476Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:16:15 GMT