Re: [LUG] Wife's computer SSH?

[Eion MacDonald <maceion@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/02/2020 20:40, Simon Avery wrote:
>     >misunderstanding the role of SSH, I do not need it.
> 
>     Probably none of us *need* it.  However, I used to use it, because it
> 
> 
> Ahem. ssh accounts for about 90% of my working life...   Adminning
> multiple linux machines without ssh is going to be... tricky.
> 
> t's /the /way to operate a linux CLI remotely. There's nothing better
> (and I include mosh, vnc, rdp, whatever). Not only is it good for that,
> but also for running remote commands automatically, or copying files
> securely, transporting backups, or tunnelling ports between sites, or
> doing a million other things from one computer to another manually or
> automatically.
> 
> If you're only using a Linux computer by sitting in front of it and
> using the GUI, and not talking to other services except perhaps by a web
> browser or email client, then it is indeed of limited use - but it is
> definitely worth learning and experimenting with if you are interested
> in what linux is about.
> 


I have explored the help pages for SSH on openSUSE help documents.
While, there seems no 'active use for SSH' use, when only admin I ready
do is updating the point install over last year's "/"s, as a yearly
upgrade to the house computers (3 working on Linux).

But I will experiment.

However the awful job of maintaining the Windows computer's of a social
club (U3A computer group's donated laptops for use in meetings,is
different , I bring them home about every two months for update etc. One
cannot remotely maintain machines that are disconnected from
electricity, switched off and locked in a cupboard!

I can see a use for remote maintenance of older computer's I have
changed to Linux for folk with 'problems', (age, house bound, onset of
dementia, those not capable of Linux maintenance but who can use them as
consumer's). I have three or four such folk I help.

Social problem, would be asking them to allow me to remotely log in to
maintain. This would be a major *no* to their privacy thinking.
(They do not mind me turning up to maintain *in their presence* at their
homes.)

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regards
Eion MacDonald

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