SSH can be used as a secure tunnel for varios protocals, such as PPP which is 
then used as a  VPN. POP3 can be used through SSH and many others. I think X 
can as well.

On Friday 22 November 2002 04:13 pm, Hamish McBrearty wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've got a fairly newbie-ish question. I've been playing around abit with
> SSH on my linux box, I can connect quite happily from my Mac OS-X machine.
> My question is, what exactly can I do with SSH besides get a secure telnet
> and run commands? From some of the stuff I've read it points to being
> about to run XWindows as a thin client, is this right?
>
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