Comment by jayd16
Is there any tool or ssh extension that would bring these apps into the remote session?
Is something like that possible? Seems like you could conceivablely dump these small file size tools into a temp folder and and use them and that could be automated.
Is there a security issue with that? Do any of these tools need more permission than the remote session would have?
Maybe the main issue is portability of these apps?
This is certainly a common sentiment (I've felt it myself) so is it at all possible?
If you have enough privileges to mount a filesystem on login, that would be one way to do it. If that process requires significant time or extra steps then you probably ought to make that a manual step. I don't think there is a security issue with this approach from the user's perspective, since it is their tools being executed. But if you are an administrator you might have grave objections to allowing random binaries and scripts to be imported into the environment with no audit trail.