SSH Config Autocomplete¶

Create tunnels from your existing ~/.ssh/config hosts.

Using SSH Config Hosts¶

Create a Tunnel from Config¶

1. Click Add Tunnel (or Cmd+N)
2. In the Name field, click the server icon button
3. Select a host from the dropdown
4. Fields populate automatically from your SSH config

What Gets Populated¶

SSH Config Format¶

StormTunnel supports standard SSH config directives:

Host my-server
    HostName 192.168.1.100
    User admin
    Port 2222
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my-key
    LocalForward 8080 localhost:80

Supported Directives¶

Wildcard Patterns¶

Hosts with wildcards (*, ?) are excluded from the dropdown:

# These appear in the dropdown
Host production-db
Host staging-api

# These are excluded (wildcards)
Host *
Host *.example.com

Identity File Matching¶

If your SSH config specifies an IdentityFile, StormTunnel matches it with your imported keys:

1. Reads the IdentityFile path from config
2. Searches imported keys for a matching file path
3. If found, selects that key automatically

Example SSH Config¶

# Development server
Host dev
    HostName dev.example.com
    User developer
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/dev-key

# Production database tunnel
Host prod-db
    HostName bastion.example.com
    User admin
    Port 2222
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/prod-key
    LocalForward 5432 db.internal:5432

# Staging API
Host staging-api
    HostName staging.example.com
    User deploy
    LocalForward 8080 localhost:3000