On 12/10/17 14:15, Phil Thane wrote: [snip]
I think I'm going to have to start from scratch though, somehow I've managed to lock myself out of Nextcloud and can't get back in without the MariaDB/SQL details, which were on a piece of paper that disappeared when we moved house!
hope you fix it.
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The SSH X thing looks useful, not seen that before, I'll give it a go. Thanks.
SSH -X *IS* useful, BUT, it is regarded as a security risk. You have to specifically edit your sshd config file to allow it.
A quick google found this https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/14815/security-concerns-with-x1... however there may be many more. Google "ssh x11 forwarding risk" or similar. (The -X means x11 forwarding.)
If you're inside a secure network and your client is as secure as your server, I wouldn't have thought that there was a problem, but I think the consensus is that it could be, which is why it's disabled by default.
Hope that helps.
Steve