Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

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.

Table of Contents

1. Legacy Protocols: Why Replace Telnet, FTP, rsh, rcp, and rlogin with SSH?
2. A Quick SSH Implementation
3. The File Structure of OpenSSH
4. The OpenSSH Server
5. The OpenSSH Client
6. Authentication
7. Advanced Topics
8. TCP Forwarding
9. Managing Your OpenSSH Environment
10. Scripting with OpenSSH
11. SSH Tectia Server