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Re: Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh <host> vs. ssh <host> xterm



On Apr 28, 2020, Steve Keller wrote:
> What are best practices to create a remote terminal?  I see to ways:
> Create a local terminal emulator and run ssh to the remote host in
> that or call ssh to run the terminal emulator on the remote host,
> i.e.
> 
>     xterm -e ssh -X <host>      or      ssh -X <host> xterm -ls
> 
> What are pros and cons?  I see one: The latter will produce more
> overhead as it runs the X11 protocol through the ssh tunnel.

I must be missing something key - what's wrong with "ssh user@host" ?

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