SSH Mastery

SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys is the first technical book released through my private label, Tilted Windmill Press.

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Secure Shell (SSH) lets systems administrators securely manage remote systems. But most people only use the bare minimum SSH offers. Used properly, SSH simplifies your job.

This book saves you from sifting a decade of obsolete online tutorials and quickly gets you running:SSH with the OpenSSH server and the PuTTY and OpenSSH clients. You will:

  • Eliminate passwords.
  • Manage access to your SSH server by users, groups, addresses, and more
  • Securely move files around your network
  • Forward graphic displays from one host to another
  • Forward TCP connections
  • Centrally manage host keys and client configurations
  • Use SSH as a secure transport for other applications
  • Secure applications run over SSH
  • Build Virtual Private Networks with OpenSSH

    • And more! This book simplifies the work of anyone using SSH. Small enough to read and implement quickly, exhaustive enough to include everything most of us need plus a little more. Master SSH with SSH Mastery.

    Get the print book from:

  • the OpenBSD Project, developers of OpenSSH (OpenBSD gets the books at my cost, profits support OpenBSD and OpenSSH
  • my bookstore (list price, but I make the most off of these; these are Lucas Charity purchases)
  • Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, Amazon DE
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Powell’s
  • Other quality online bookstores

    • Get the ebook at:

  • my personal publisher, Tilted Windmill Press — I provide PDF, epub, and mobi, without DRM. I make the most on these sales, but they’re PayPal-only as of now. (Also available as part of the 3-book bundle at a 10% discount!) (non-EU only because of VAT, sorry folks.)
  • Gumroad – PDF, epub, and mobi, DRM-free.
  • Smashwords – ten different ebook formats
  • Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, Amazon DE
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Kobo
  • iBooks

    Critical acclaim for SSH Mastery

    “…SSH Mastery is a title that Unix users and system administrators like myself will want to keep within reach…”
    — Peter Hansteen

    This stripping-down of the usual tech-book explanations gives it the immediacy of extended documentation on the Internet. Not the multipage how-to articles used as vehicles for advertising, but an in-depth presentation from someone who used OpenSSH to do a number of things, and paid attention while doing it.
    — Justin Sherrill, DragonFlyBSD Digest

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