Pro OpenSSH

by Michael Stahnke

Overview

SSH, or Secure Shell, is the de facto standard among users and administrators who wish to establish secure communication between disparate networks. This book is authored by a Fortune 100 system administrator, who will provide you with a highly practical reference for configuring and deploying OpenSSH in your own environment.

Some of the topics covered in this book include: OpenSSH installation and configuration, key management, secure logging, client/server architectures, and digital certificates. The author also provides you with complete deployment scenarios that arise daily in enterprise environments, both large and small.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590594766
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/15/2005
Series:	Books for Professionals by Professionals
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Michael Stahnke works as a Unix security administrator at a Fortune 100 company in the Midwest. He has headed implementation of Secure Shell for his corporate IT group and assisted with global production rollouts. Additionally, he has led several studies and projects to improve the security state of his large-scale UNIX/Linux environment. When not devoting his time to improving security at work, Michael spends time researching and applying new open-source technologies and practices. Michael has also done contract programming to create content management solutions utilizing PHP, Perl, MySQL and C++.

Table of Contents

Legacy Prools: Why replace telnet, ftp, rsh, rcp, rlogin, etc with SSH?- Introducing SSH.- Order of precedence for settings: Whose settings are honored in what order?- Configuring the client: Exploring each configuration in detail.- Configuring the server: Ditto.- SSH Communications administrative console: Automating the manual.- PAM & Passwords.- Cryptographic Keys for hosts and users.- Unique Authentication options: digital Certificates & SecurID.- Tunneling legacy prools into ssh.- Mixed environments: Open and Commercial SSH.- Securing SSH.- Efficient secure automation designs.- Client alternatives.- Scripting SSH.- Client configuration file switches, their meanings and the defaults table.- Server configuration file switches, their meanings, and the defaults table.