SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys

Secure Shell (SSH) lets systems administrators securely manage remote systems. But most people only use the bare minimum SSH offers. Used properly, SSH simplifies your job and improves security.

This book saves you from sifting a decade of obsolete online tutorials and quickly gets you running:SSH with the OpenSSH server and the PuTTY and OpenSSH clients. You will:

• Eliminate passwords.
• Manage access to your SSH server by users, groups, addresses, and more
• Securely move files around your network
• Forward graphic displays from one host to another
• Forward TCP/IP connections
• Centrally manage host keys and client configurations
• Use SSH as a secure transport for other applications
• Secure applications run over SSH
• Build Virtual Private Networks with OpenSSH

And more! This book quickly and painlessly simplifies life for anyone using SSH.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing OpenSSH
Chapter 2: Encryption, Algorithms, and Keys
Chapter 3: The OpenSSH Server
Chapter 4: Verifying Server Keys
Chapter 5: SSH Clients
Chapter 6: Copying Files over SSH
Chapter 7: SSH Keys
Chapter 8: X11 Forwarding
Chapter 11: Host Key Distribution
Chapter 12: Limiting SSH
Chapter 13: SSH Virtual Private Networks