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My go to for this is "My first thought would be to use sshd here. I assume you've tried that?"

Yeh or “I’m guessing ‘obvious solution’ didn’t work?” Either way any phrasing that implies you view them as an intelligent person who may have slipped up vs you just assume they are dumb will work fine?

this exactly.

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