On 07/23/2014 07:43 AM, jcsl wrote:
And I'm not trying to control the server remotely (isn't it what VNC is for?)
Whatever gave you that impression? No, vnc is a protocol for remotely viewing the screen of another computer. In many ways its more relevant in the Windows world than the UNIX world. As I've mentioned, UNIX had X and X was based on the screen not being on the computer in the first place. Its only with Linux-on-pcs that we are behaving like Windows and having the display engine on the same machine as the compute engine. ssh has nothing to do with viewing screens. Its just a means of setting up an encrypted link between two computers. X-over-shh is just that. No different from smtp-over-shh or, ${DEITY} forbid, telnet over shh. ssh is going to slow things down over a simple, unencrypted link because of the overhead of the encryption. That's the price you pay for that security. With modern CPUs its not bad; the encryption variant used in httpS, for example we don't really notice -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org