Re: help! Octave, connecting laptops to "supercomputers"

[c.]

On 31 Jan 2013, at 02:00, Pedro <address@hidden> wrote:

> First of all, Writing this mail I wanted to know what use octavian
> people like me (or not) when need to work with hard processes. 4/4 for
> going in "ssh -X", well, I have to re-think on that!
> 
> I said no to "ssh -X" because I'm looking for alternatives on
> connecting with computer/computers that process the data.
> 
> - I've never used. (read last line of this mail)
> 
> - from ssh -X I read that is innerently insecure, because run a root
> process: the X server, read this (old) review about this [1].

I think you are being over-paranoid here, but if you really want you can try
a vnc connection over an ssl tunnel, (which is also one of the suggestions 
given in your link):

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ssvnc.html

c.