The best reason I can think of to use ssh internally is for compression - X11 is a major bandwidth piggie. "der.hans" wrote: > > Am 03. Feb, 2002 schwätzte Kevin Brown so: > > > If this is on an internal LAN at home then I would think that you > > could connect without having to use ssh. My systems here all accept > > Sure, you can, but why? ssh does what you need with less effort and way more > security. > > ciao, > > der.hans