[Novices] SSH Tutorials / Guides?

[Dirk Bartley]

It's hard to open up security holes with ssh.  There are things that can
be closed though, like if you want to make connections from an internet
interface only possible by certain users.  Also you can disable password
authentication and force public and private key authentication.
Baically, ssh just works and every distribution worth a darn sets it up
by default.

The presentation is heavy on the forwarding, so here is my latest way of
thinking about it that works every time.

-Llp:forwardhost:ftp connectinghost
-Rlp:forwardhost:ftp connectinghost

where:
L the listening port is on the local machine
R the listening port is on the remote machine
lp -> The listening port number
ftp -> forward to port
forwardhost -> a string, either an ip address or a dns name that will be
interpreted by the machine that is involved in the connection
(localmachine or connectinghost) that does not have the listening port.
This string will determine the host the listening port will be forwarded
to.

gpg, also a package that uses encryption technology will be presented in
a couple of weeks.

Dirk


On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 12:36 -0400, yvh11a wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Does anyone know of a good online guide to SSH or (better) a book with a 
> chapter or three devoted to it?  Ideally, something that includes info 
> on working with both the client side and the server side would be great.
> 
> As it stands, I know just enough to realize I need to know a lot more 
> before I can fiddle around with it and be confident I haven't mistakenly 
> opened up a bunch of security holes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve V.
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