SSH Considered Harmful – Why You Should Be Using Persistent Sessions

It seems silly for the author to have titled this "SSH considered harmful" when they literally use SSH in their suggested alternative.

That said, https://mosh.org/ is also a good alternative to a plain old SSH connection.

Dramatic title for a post which basically says "use tmux".

Honestly, there's nothing there that is harmful about SSH. The article is just suggesting you use tmux and to do so securely, over the wire, you'll still need SSH.

Harmful? Really? The hyperbole of that statement stands in stark contrast to the rest of your post, which indeed is quite helpful, especially for those that haven’t heard of screen and/or tmux.

Perhaps a better title would be: “Raw SSH can be frustrating - here’s one way to fix that.”

> ssh -X $host -t "tmux -CC attach -t $session_name || tmux -CC new -s $session_name"

or you could just

  ssh -X $host -t "screen -R"

Yes I always use tmux.