SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
by Daniel J. Barrett & Richard E. Silverman


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This page was updated on March 17, 2004.


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CONFIRMED errors:



(230)  First complete paragraph, lines 4-6.;
Line 4, second-last word: typo "USENRAME" should be "USERNAME".
Line 6, first word: "STRING" should be in the same typestyle as "USERNAME" on line 4.


[311]  section 8.2.7;
The "idle-timeout" directive is described as being applicable to both SSH1 and OpenSSH.  
but, the "idle-timeout" authorized_keys option is available in SSH1 only.


{344}  Figure 9-10 X forwarding:

Currently, the dotted circle on the left is labelled "X client"
and the dotted circle on the right "X server".

The labels should be the other way around, "X server" on the left
and "X client" on the right.