the point is to have all of the tools in one view.
So it’s a GUI, to a front-end of another tool, and it also introduces it’s own configurations into the mix? So like…building a bigger car around an existing car just to drive the smaller car. Not sure I’m really “getting it”. Like I don’t get why introduced a frontend to an existing GUI-based tool like a VNC or RDP viewer.
Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 1 month ago
crschnick@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And not to only aggregate them in one view but to also make them interact with each other. It’s not just about having SSH connections, docker containers, or VNC connections side by side, but using them together. For example, any VNC connection in XPipe is automatically tunneled over SSH, so you don’t even need to expose the port. If you add a system in XPipe via SSH, you will automatically have access to a VNC connection as well if a VNC server is running on it. Doing all of that manually is definitely possible, but will take you some time to set up and start each time.
crschnick@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah I did not downvote you, feel free to take a dive into the data if you really care about that.
I think your analogy about the cars can be augmented a bit. I would say that individual components like VNC are not really a car to begin with. VNC is an insecure protocol by default. Technically there are VNC security measures to potentially encode the data, but these are often not used*. Furthermore, even if you encrypt the data stream, VNC authentication options are severely limited. So something like VNC needs to run over something like a SSH tunnel to be considered properly secure. And to properly do that, you need an SSH integration as well. That is one example where these synergies happen in XPipe.