Here's the entry I just finished adding to OpenBSD's books.html page
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SSH Mastery
by Michael Lucas
ISBN-13: 978-1470069711
ISBN-10: 1470069717
February 2012, 145 pp.
A guide to what you need to know about SSH. This book will help you
eliminate passwords on your network, tunnel unencrypted protocols through
secure channels, build VPNs with OpenSSH, and more. Focuses on the OpenSSH
server, the OpenSSH client, and the PuTTY client. Michael W Lucas is the
author of Absolute OpenBSD and other BSD books. Helping support OpenBSD,
Michael is contributing all his author's profits, from orders via the main
OpenBSD order page, back to the project.
[ Order direct from the OpenBSD website International.]
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A book like this is great for those of us that have a lot on our plate.
I can remember a long period when I kind of knew what OpenSSH could do
but just didn't have the time to parse out the man page to properly to
forward a browser port or a mail port, to set up a VPN, and I could have
benefited a lot sooner with a bit more well explained cookbook examples
at my fingertips. Then there's that pesky stuff with keep alive and so
on. What does it all really mean for the context I was having trouble
with?
Hey, I wonder if Michael has anything to say about the safety of even
using OpenSSH variants on a different operating system to access one of my
OpenBSD boxen. I'm looking forward to read my own copy.
Yes, this book has already been out in electronic form for a bit, but
myself I spend too much time looking at screen and I still like the
physical experience of handling a book. Besides, the printed version
already benefits from reader corrections to the electronic edition.
Michael has been very gracious with timely help to enable the main OpenBSD
website to be the first to offer it, It will be available everywhere soon,
but we do have a jump on it this time. It's been so long for us since we
last enjoyed Michael's style that we enjoyed in Absolute OpenBSD, I am
really happy to see him come back to us with this new volume.
There will be a slight delay before the first copies arrive and can be
shipped, but the order site is already set up.
https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?B09=1&B08%2b=Add
Austin
