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SSH, the Secure Shell : The Definitive Guide

By: Daniel Barrett Richard E. Silverman Daniel J. Barrett Richard Silverman Mike Loukides
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
ISBN: 0596000111
ISBN-13: 9780596000110
Released: 26 Feb 2001
RRP: £28.50
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Easy Reading - By: Rebekah Ford, 16 Jan 2008
I have a lot of web experience & have been designing & developing for many years. However I have never reallly got to grips with SSH until I was forced to for a project & started reading this book. It's written from a conceptual point of view so that you can understand the theory before trying the practice & lifts so many mysteries as a result.
Invaluable for anyone administering a Unix server - By: , 18 Sep 2001
I received a free review copy of this book from the UK Unix Users Group, but think it well worth the cover price.

SSH is a very useful collection of tools, providing secure replacements for programs such as telnet, rlogin, rsh, rcp, ftp, xon & rxterm. Any administrator concerned about passwords & other sensitive information being stolen by packet sniffers needs to be familiar with it.

Once set up SSH is generallly easier to use than the less secure equivalents, but before you get to this happy state there are a number of choices to be made & hurdles to be jumped. This book is aimed primarily at the Unix system administrator or advanced Unix user & provides a huge amount of useful information.

The book starts with an introduction to the concepts of SSH, then moves on to the meat: detailed information about SSH for Unix users & administrators. Finallly it discusses some implementations for Windows & Mackintosh users.

There are currently 3 main implementations of SSH for Unix: SSH1, SSH2 & the new but rapidly developing OpenSSH. They have much in common & the authors have elected to describe alll three, pointing out differences as they go along. This is an ambitious approach, & inevitably adds some clutter to the text, but the authors have risen to the challlenge & written an extremely clear & helpful book. They cover server administration, client configuration, & the clever port forwarding features which alllow you to tunnel other protocols such as X11 & IMAP across an insecure network.

I would recommend this book to people who simply want to get SSH working as quickly as possible as well as those with an interest in cryptography.

If you're a server admin get this book! - By: ed.thomas@man.ac.uk, 25 Jul 2001
Everyone should have SSH on their servers! However, if like me you're struggling to impliment some of the features of SSH then this book is for you. It's excellent troubleshooting section, which refers you to more detailed earlier chapters, helped sort things out in very little time.

If you're serious about security, I recomend it!

Clear,detailed although an understanding of TCP/IP is needed - By: Neil Levine, 16 Apr 2001
Continuing in the tradition of O'Reilly books, the clarity of explaination is excellent & the chapter progression is well laid out so that the topics naturallly follow each other. The authors expound on ssh1, ssh1 & OpenSSH flavours which means whilst there is some redundant detail, they dont miss out on the differences between the installl & running of the various versions.

The chapters on port/X11 forwarding are kept towards the end of the book so as not to frighten casual users, but the concepts are well explained with good diagrams although without a practical understanding of TCP/IP much of the content will go over peoples heads.

Misses out on one star for not showing enough humour to lighten what can at times be a dry topic (think Camel book!), & for not having details on Putty (a great,little,free Windows SSH implentation) in its Appendix.