there must be

basic is just remote shell, which you just do by ```ssh [email protected]```

I'd definitely recommend you install byobu on the remote machine too, so you can have persistent sessions

may I ask how old you are?

ssh is just a remote shell

33

but havent been coding for long

@DanielKO ssh is way more than just a remote shell

It's just a remote shell.

you can transfer files, set up proxies, set up tunnels

That does one or two fancy things to help remote access.

it does quite a few fancy things

I can't think of a remote access tool that does more

Tunnels and file transfers.

And does it over an encrypted connection, unlike telnet and ftp.

you can also do things like forward x sessions

But that's X's feature.

thx @Ƶero
ima duck out n let you 2 split hairs 😄

uh, no, it's a feature you can use because X transfers data through sockets

Yes, it's a feature from X. What I said.

not exclusive to x

anything that passes data through sockets you can run through ssh

@DanielKO What kind of systems do you work on?

Which is what I said was one of ssh's few features, tunneling.

I work mostly with GNU/Linux.

tunneling and fowarding are different

anyway, splitting hairs

ditto, I'm >99% GNU/Linux

and I make insane use of SSH 😄

Nah, they're not.

Could just xhost it manually.

a forward is something you can set up through a tunnel, but a tunnel itself is not necessarily a fowrard. The difference is a forward involves mapping something from one host on one side to somewhere on the other host

EG I could forward port 80 on machine A to port 8000 on machine B through a tunnel, but just a tunnel doesn't do that you need to run a forward through it

that's the distinction I'm making

and I make that distinction because that's functionality a lot of remote access tools don't offer. Forwarding through a tunnel is a badass feature that just comes standard with SSH (as long as your forwarding target system supports it)

Whether it's calling `connect()` or `bind()/listen()/accept ()`.

what time zone are you in?

mid day here (14:16)~

I'm in my bed's timezone.

hahah well said

UTC is a social construct!