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 That makes the book a little out-of-date.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… Read more
Ray Brown is such a tasty player. He gives a lot of latitude to the others in the trio and they do a wonderful job. Jeff Hamilton is one of the best jazz drummers I have ever heard. Benny Green is exciting to listen to. The final cut "Phineas Can Be" is a fitting homage to the great Phineas Newborn. This is a fine disk.
