[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv

[Sam Jacobs]

On 8 May 2014 at 04:32:24, Saul A. Peebsen (jaglover at gmail.com) wrote:
> No need for SSH, X has native feature to be accessed remotely, SSH is
> needed only if accessed over untrusted network. You can have an X app
> installed in a remote box - no X needed in this box - and you can run
> this app from any box that has X installed. It is amazing how people do
> not remember basics.

You need some way to run mythtv-setup in the first place though :P Also, SSH is convenient even over a trusted network in that it will manage X’s security stuff for you. Not to mention that some X servers, AFAIK, aren’t set up to accept connections from remote clients.

Sam


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