Book Description

SSH, or Secure Socket Shell, is the de facto standard among users and administrators who wish to establish secure communication between disparate networks. This book is authored by two Fortune 100 system administrators, 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 authors also provide you with complete deployment scenarios that arise daily in enterprise environments, both large and small.

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++.