SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys - 2nd Edition

The seminal text on SSH, newly revised and updated!

Secure Shell (SSH) lets sysadmins securely manage remote systems. It’s powerful, complicated, and confusing.

Lose the confusion.

SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys rescues you from sifting through decades of obsolete online tutorials and quickly makes you an SSH journeyman. You’ll learn to

• eliminate passwords

• manage access by users, groups, addresses, and more

• securely move files around your network

• forward graphic displays

• proxy TCP connections

• build SOCKS proxies

• centrally manage and distribute keys and configurations

• use SSH as secure transport for other applications

• build virtual private networks

• create Certificate Authorities for truly large scale deployment

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