I don't know. Maybe. It seems like something that could be handy, but I don't yet know how much I'll wind up using it. For what it's worth, I was working on a scenario exactly like this earlier tonight, and I wound up just ssh'ing into a shell on the remote box to do stuff. But that might just be inertia from being used to doing that, or maybe it was because I had a lot of other stuff to do on that box at the same time...