Pro OpenSSH

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Apress, Nov 22, 2006 - Computers - 312 pages

SSH, or Secure Shell, is the de facto standard among users and administrators who wish to establish secure communication between disparate networks. This book is authored by a Fortune 100 system administrator, who will provide you with a highly practical reference for configuring and deploying OpenSSH in your own environment.

Some of the topics covered in this book include: OpenSSH installation and configuration, key management, secure logging, client/server architectures, and digital certificates. The author also provides you with complete deployment scenarios that arise daily in enterprise environments, both large and small.

 

Contents

CHAPTER
2
Why Replace Telnet FTP rsh rcp
3
CHAPTER
4
CHAPTER
5
CHAPTER
8
A Quick SSH Implementation
17
Configuring OpenSSH
36
The OpenSSH Server
47
Managing Your OpenSSH Environment
165
Securing OpenSSH
180
Summary
198
Administration with OpenSSH
199
Scripting with OpenSSH
201
Summary
225
SSH Tectia Server
227
APPENDIX A SSH Client Alternatives
241

The OpenSSH Client
69
Authentication
113
Advanced Topics
146
X11 Forwarding
159
APPENDIX B OpenSSH on Windows
263
INDEX
273
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Michael Stahnke works as a Unix security administrator at a Fortune 100 company in the Midwest. He has headed implementation of Secure Shell for his corporate IT group and assisted with global production rollouts. Additionally, he has led several studies and projects to improve the security state of his large-scale UNIX/Linux environment. When not devoting his time to improving security at work, Michael spends time researching and applying new open-source technologies and practices. Michael has also done contract programming to create content management solutions utilizing PHP, Perl, MySQL and C++.