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Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015)
- vekntksijdhric 9mo agoI guess the answer is UI, which clearly the author didn't mention
- emigre 9mo agoYou can use an UI application remotely via ssh via X11 forwarding. But, at least over wi-fi, I've found it to be too slow to be useful.
- Levitating 9mo agothere were some attempts (waypipe) to get a similar thing working on Wayland
- camgunz 9mo agoA thing I ran into is there are no virtual hosts in SSH, i.e. you can't have an SSH server at happy.example.org and ecstatic.example.org if they're both the same IP address. There was a patch for this but support waned. It's a huge blocker.
- graemep 9mo agoFor any specific use you could build something on top of it to deal with that. For example if you go with the last idea in the article and build http over ssh then your server just looks at the headers. You would not have separate certs for each subdomain but is that a problem? arguably more convenient.
- c0_0p_ 9mo agoI know a commercial product isn't necessarily the solution, but I just love Tailscale. It makes sshing around absurdly easy and clean. There is also the open source headscale, which I haven't used but seems to be well respected.
- mannyv 9mo agoAren't we?
- nektro 9mo ago> It’s lacking a notion of virtual hosts, or being able to serve different endpoints on different hostnames from a single IP address. this is the answer. but fantastic read of an article
- tetris11 9mo agoA dwarf fortress style mmorpg played over SSH would be incredible