SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide By Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman
February 2001
Pages: 558

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapters | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction to SSH

    1. What Is SSH?

    2. What SSH Is Not

    3. The SSH Protocol

    4. Overview of SSH Features

    5. History of SSH

    6. Related Technologies

    7. Summary

  2. Chapter 2 Basic Client Use

    1. A Running Example

    2. Remote Terminal Sessions with ssh

    3. Adding Complexity to the Example

    4. Authentication by Cryptographic Key

    5. The SSH Agent

    6. Connecting Without a Password or Passphrase

    7. Miscellaneous Clients

    8. Summary

  3. Chapter 3 Inside SSH

    1. Overview of Features

    2. A Cryptography Primer

    3. The Architecture of an SSH System

    4. Inside SSH-1

    5. Inside SSH-2

    6. As-User Access (userfile)

    7. Randomness

    8. SSH and File Transfers (scp and sftp)

    9. Algorithms Used by SSH

    10. Threats SSH Can Counter

    11. Threats SSH Doesn't Prevent

    12. Summary

  4. Chapter 4 Installation and Compile-Time Configuration

    1. SSH1 and SSH2

    2. F-Secure SSH Server

    3. OpenSSH

    4. Software Inventory

    5. Replacing R-Commands with SSH

    6. Summary

  5. Chapter 5 Serverwide Configuration

    1. The Name of the Server

    2. Running the Server

    3. Server Configuration: An Overview

    4. Getting Ready: Initial Setup

    5. Letting People in: Authentication and Access Control

    6. User Logins and Accounts

    7. Subsystems

    8. History, Logging, and Debugging

    9. Compatibility Between SSH-1 and SSH-2 Servers

    10. Summary

  6. Chapter 6 Key Management and Agents

    1. What Is an Identity?

    2. Creating an Identity

    3. SSH Agents

    4. Multiple Identities

    5. Summary

  7. Chapter 7 Advanced Client Use

    1. How to Configure Clients

    2. Precedence

    3. Introduction to Verbose Mode

    4. Client Configuration in Depth

    5. Secure Copy with scp

    6. Summary

  8. Chapter 8 Per-Account Server Configuration

    1. Limits of This Technique

    2. Public Key-Based Configuration

    3. Trusted-Host Access Control

    4. The User rc File

    5. Summary

  9. Chapter 9 Port Forwarding and X Forwarding

    1. What Is Forwarding?

    2. Port Forwarding

    3. X Forwarding

    4. Forwarding Security: TCP-wrappers and libwrap

    5. Summary

  10. Chapter 10 A Recommended Setup

    1. The Basics

    2. Compile-Time Configuration

    3. Serverwide Configuration

    4. Per-Account Configuration

    5. Key Management

    6. Client Configuration

    7. Remote Home Directories (NFS, AFS)

    8. Summary

  11. Chapter 11 Case Studies

    1. Unattended SSH: Batch or cron Jobs

    2. FTP Forwarding

    3. Pine, IMAP, and SSH

    4. Kerberos and SSH

    5. Connecting Through a GatewayHost

  12. Chapter 12 Troubleshooting and FAQ

    1. Debug Messages: Your First Line of Defense

    2. Problems and Solutions

    3. Other SSH Resources

    4. Reporting Bugs

  13. Chapter 13 Overview of Other Implementations

    1. Common Features

    2. Covered Products

    3. Table of Products

    4. Other SSH-Related Products

  14. Chapter 14 SSH1 Port by Sergey Okhapkin (Windows)

    1. Obtaining and Installing Clients

    2. Client Use

    3. Obtaining and Installing the Server

    4. Troubleshooting

    5. Summary

  15. Chapter 15 SecureCRT (Windows)

    1. Obtaining and Installing

    2. Basic Client Use

    3. Key Management

    4. Advanced Client Use

    5. Forwarding

    6. Troubleshooting

    7. Summary

  16. Chapter 16 F-Secure SSH Client (Windows, Macintosh)

    1. Obtaining and Installing

    2. Basic Client Use

    3. Key Management

    4. Advanced Client Use

    5. Forwarding

    6. Troubleshooting

    7. Summary

  17. Chapter 17 NiftyTelnet SSH (Macintosh)

    1. Obtaining and Installing

    2. Basic Client Use

    3. Troubleshooting

    4. Summary

  1. Appendix A SSH2 Manpage for sshregex

  2. Appendix B SSH Quick Reference

    1. Legend

    2. sshd Options

    3. sshd Keywords

    4. ssh and scp Keywords

    5. ssh Options

    6. scp Options

    7. ssh-keygen Options

    8. ssh-agent Options

    9. ssh-add Options

    10. Identity and Authorization Files

    11. Environment Variables

  3. Colophon

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