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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide [Paperback]

Daniel J. Barrett (Author), Richard E. Silverman (Author)
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The suite of utility applications that Unix users and administrators find indispensable--Telnet, rlogin, FTP, and the rest--can in fact prove to be the undoing of interconnected systems. The Secure Shell, aka SSH, which isn't a true shell at all, provides your otherwise attack-prone utilities with the protection they need. SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide explains how to use SSH at all levels. In a blended sequence, the book explains what SSH is all about, how it fits into a larger security scheme, and how to employ it as an everyday user with an SSH client. More technically detailed chapters show how to configure a SSH server--several variants are covered--and how to integrate SSH with non-Unix client platforms.

As befits its detail- and variation-rich subject, this book comprises many specialised sections, each dealing with some specific aspect of use or configuration (setting up access control at the account level, for example, or generating keys for a particular SSH server). The writing is both informative and fun to read; the authors switch back and forth between text and entry-and-response listings from SSH machines. They often run through a half-dozen or more variants on the same command in a few pages, providing the reader with lots of practical information. The discussion of how SSH fits into a Kerberos Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is great, as is the advice on defeating particular kinds of attacks. --David Wall

Topics covered:

  • The Secure Shell (SSH) for installers, administrators, and everyday users
  • SSH design and operation
  • Server setup
  • SSH agents
  • Client configuration
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) integration
  • SSH1
  • SSH2
  • F-Secure
  • OpenSSH for Unix
  • SSH1 and SecureCRT for Microsoft Windows
  • NiftyTelnet SSH for Mac OS

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If you are looking to secure your network, or just want to find out more about secure transports, then this is the book to buy. -- Peter Scott, FirstMonday, April 2002
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3.0 out of 5 stars SSHweet, Dec 22 2004
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This review is from: SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
I recently finished reading SSH, The Secure Shell, The Definitive
Guide, by Barrett and Silverman over at O'Reilly. This book is
exacly what the title says, it's a definitive guide to SSH. It covers
installation and use. It incorporates SSH usage in a semi how-to
fashion but it also contains what How-tos would leave out. It
describes the how and the why related to protocols, procedures,
programs (scp, sftp...) and configurations. Through out the book they
discuss SSH1, SSH2 and OpenSSH (less) and a comparison of what one
SSH version has over the other. It covers aspects like Installation
and configuration, X11 Forwarding, Securing IMAP Auth and many others.

This book covers both the server and client aspect of SSH and I
would recommend this book to anyone who would like an in depth
look at SSH.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great book overall, a few flaws, Aug 8 2003
This review is from: SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
SSH, the Secure Shell: The Defintiive Guide is another great book from O'Reilly. As the name would suggest, however, it's not so much a meant as a tutorial or a howto as it is an in-depth analysis of SSH's workings, though the examples given could probably be used as the former.

The first chapters of the book begin with a lookat what SSH is, a summary of its general uses, and the differences between the various SSH implmentations. It then quickly moves onto a number of practical examples, with explanations of both the 'how' and 'why' behind the examples.

Some of the more interesting examples are those that demonstrate X11 tunnelling, key management, and how SSH can be integrated with other applications (such as PGP, for example).

One of the major faults of the book is in the writing style. The regular switching back and forth between a conversational tone and a serious, technical one was something that I found rather annoying. But other than that, this is more or less a well-rounded and nicely written book on SSH, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone who is interested in this topic.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good Content, Very Poor Organization, April 5 2003
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I had some experience with ssh prior to purchasing this book, but picked it up to learn about more advanced topics like key pair generation for unattended ssh tunnels.

The content of the book is ok, but the organization is horrible. The authors mix SSH1, SSH2 and OpenSSH and it is easy to get confused as to which files or commands belong to which. To add to the confusion, OpenSSH now appears to support SSH2 protocol so a lot of the file names don't match up. That makes the book a little out-of-date.

The biggest complaint is that there are no "cookbooks". I wanted to do something well-defined and relatively common. There was a section suited specifically to what I wanted. However to ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT the technique, I had to flip back and forth between 5 different sections, plus infer some information about file contents.

There are few complete configuration file examples. There are snips of files scattered throughout a section - again making for a lot of navigation through the book to assemble sufficient information to get the job done.

The index is marginal, which makes this poorly-suited for a reference manual.

In all, a real disappointment for a O'Reilly book. The editors must have been asleep at the wheel.

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