Secure your computer network with SSH! With transparent, strong encryption, reliable public-key authentication, and a highly configurable client/server architecture, SSH (Secure Shell) is a popular, robust, TCP/IP-based solution to many network security and privacy concerns. It supports secure remote logins, secure file transfer between computers, and a unique "tunneling" capability that adds encryption to otherwise insecure network applications. Best of all, SSH is free, with feature-filled commercial versions available as well.SSH: The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide covers the Secure Shell in detail for both system administrators and end users. It demystifies the SSH man pages and includes thorough coverage of:
<ul>
<li> SSH1, SSH2, OpenSSH, and F-Secure SSH for Unix, plus Windows and Macintosh products: the basics, the internals, and complex applications.</li>
<li> Configuring SSH servers and clients, both system-wide and per user, with recommended settings to maximize security.</li>
<li> Advanced key management using agents, agent forwarding, and forced commands.</li>
<li> Forwarding (tunneling) of TCP and X11 applications in depth, even in the presence of firewalls and network address translation (NAT).</li>
<li> Undocumented behaviors of popular SSH implementations.</li>
<li> Installing and maintaining SSH systems.</li>
</ul>Whether you're communicating on a small LAN or across the Internet, SSH can ship your data from "here" to "there" efficiently and securely. So throw away those insecure .rhosts and hosts.equiv files, move up to SSH, and make your network a safe place to live and work.

SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

Computers & Technology

Barrett, Daniel J.

Silverman, Richard E.

Networking & Cloud Computing

O'Reilly Media

Computer security is an ongoing process, a relentless contest between system administrators and intruders. A good administrator needs to stay one step ahead of any adversaries, which often involves a continuing process of education. If you're grounded in the basics of security, however, you won't necessarily want a complete treatise on the subject each time you pick up a book. Sometimes you want to get straight to the point. That's exactly what the new Linux Security Cookbook does. Rather than provide a total security solution for Linux computers, the authors present a series of easy-to-follow recipes-short, focused pieces of code that administrators can use to improve security and perform common tasks securely. The Linux Security Cookbook includes real solutions to a wide range of targeted problems, such as sending encrypted email within Emacs, restricting access to network services at particular times of day, firewalling a webserver, preventing Ip spoofing, setting up key-based Ssh authentication, and much more. With over 150 ready-to-use scripts and configuration files, this unique book helps administrators secure their systems without having to look up specific syntax. The book begins with recipes devised to establish a secure system, then moves on to secure day-to-day practices, and concludes with techniques to help your system stay secure. Some of the "recipes" you'll find in this book are: Controlling access to your system from firewalls down to individual services, using iptables, ipchains, xinetd, inetd, and more Monitoring your network with tcpdump, dsniff, netstat, and other tools Protecting network connections with Secure Shell (Ssh) and stunnel Safeguarding email sessions with Secure Sockets Layer (Ssl) Encrypting files and email messages with GnuPg Probing your own security with password crackers, nmap, and handy scripts This cookbook's proven techniques are derived from hard-won experience. Whether

Linux Security Cookbook: Security Tools & Techniques

Byrnes, Robert G.

Certification

O'Reilly's Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you're up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages.Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It's not the 'bible of Linux; it's a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it.The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux--the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux--but most of the information applies to any Linux system.Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you'll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.

Linux Pocket Guide

Operating Systems

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation."-Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line."-Rob Church, a developer of MediaWiki MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing and organizing knowledge. In corporate environments, MediaWiki can transform the way teams write and collaborate. This comprehensive book covers MediaWiki's rich (and sometimes subtle) features, helping you become a wiki expert in no time. You'll learn how to: 
<ul>
<li>Find your way around by effective searching and browsing</li>
<li>Create and edit articles, categories, and user preferences</li>
<li>Use advanced features for authors, such as templates, dynamic lists, logical parser functions, and RSS, to organize and maintain large numbers of articles</li>
<li>Install and run your own wiki, and configure its look and behavior</li>
<li>Develop custom wiki features, called extensions, with the PHP programming language and MySQL database</li>
</ul>
This book also provides special guidance for creating successful corporate wikis. For beginners who want to create or work on collaborative, community-driven websites with this platform, MediaWiki is the essential one-stop guide. "I was a MediaWiki newbie before reading this book. Now, many aspects of the platform that were murky before are crystal clear."-JP Vossen, author of O'Reilly's Bash Cookbook

MediaWiki: Wikipedia and Beyond

Web Development & Design

Review\n"Efficient Linux at the Command Line promises to make you more efficient at interacting with Linux, and it more than delivers. I highly recommend it for your library—you'll benefit from it daily." — Michael Hausenblas, Solution Engineering Lead at AWS\n"This practical book is full of command-line wisdom that you can start using today and continue to use throughout your career. Chapter 1 is worth the price of the book by itself." — Ken Hess, System Administrator\nTake your Linux skills to the next level! Whether you're a system administrator, software developer, site reliability engineer, or enthusiastic hobbyist, this practical, hands-on book will help you work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. You'll learn how to create and run complex commands that solve real business problems, process and retrieve information, and automate manual tasks. 
You'll also truly understand what happens behind the shell prompt, so no matter which commands you run, you can be more successful in everyday Linux use and more competitive on the job market. 
As you build intermediate to advanced command-line skills, you'll learn how to: Choose or construct commands that get your work done quickly Run commands efficiently and navigate the Linux filesystem with ease Build powerful, complex commands out of simpler ones Transform text files and query them like databases to achieve business goals Control Linux point-and-click features from the command line

Efficient Linux at the Command Line: Boost Your Command-Line Skills

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, then Linux Pocket Guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. This thoroughly updated 20th anniversary edition explains more than 200 Linux commands, including new commands for file handling, package management, version control, file format conversions, and more. In this concise guide, author Daniel Barrett provides the most useful Linux commands grouped by functionality. Whether you're a novice or an experienced user, this practical book is an ideal reference for the most important Linux commands. You'll learn: <ul> <li>Essential concepts--commands, shells, users, and the filesystem</li> <li>File commands-creating, organizing, manipulating, and processing files of all kinds</li> <li>Sysadmin basics-superusers, processes, user management, and software installation</li> <li>Filesystem maintenance-disks, RAID, logical volumes, backups, and more</li> <li>Networking commands-working with hosts, network connections, email, and the web</li> <li>Getting stuff done-everything from math to version control to graphics and audio</li> </ul>

Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands

Unlock the secrets of the Terminal and discover how this powerful tool solves problems the Finder can’t handle. With this handy guide, you’ll learn commands for a variety of tasks, such as killing programs that refuse to quit, renaming a large batch of files in seconds, or running jobs in the background while you do other work.
Get started with an easy-to-understand overview of the Terminal and its partner, the shell. Then dive into commands neatly arranged into two dozen categories, including directory operations, file comparisons, and network connections. Each command includes a concise description of its purpose and features.
<ul>
<li>Log into your Mac from remote locations</li>
<li>Search and modify files in powerful ways</li>
<li>Schedule jobs for particular days and times</li>
<li>Let several people use one Mac at the same time</li>
<li>Compress and uncompress files in a variety of formats</li>
<li>View and manipulate Mac OS X processes</li>
<li>Combine multiple commands to perform complex operations</li>
<li>Download and install additional commands from the Internet</li>
</ul>

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide: Take Command of Your Mac

If you use Linux in your day to day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on the job reference. The third edition features new commands for processing image files and audio files, running and killing programs, reading and modifying the system clipboard, and manipulating PDF files, as well as other commands requested by readers. You’ll also find powerful command line idioms you might not be familiar with, such as process substitution and piping into bash.
Linux Pocket Guide provides an organized learning path to help you gain mastery of the most useful and important commands. Whether you’re a novice who needs to get up to speed on Linux or an experienced user who wants a concise and functional reference, this guide provides quick answers.
Selected topics include:
<ul>
<li>The filesystem and shell</li>
<li>File creation and editing</li>
<li>Text manipulation and pipelines</li>
<li>Backups and remote storage</li>
<li>Viewing and controlling processes</li>
<li>User account management</li>
<li>Becoming the superuser</li>
<li>Network connections</li>
<li>Audio and video</li>
<li>Installing software</li>
<li>Programming with shell scripts</li>
</ul>

Most people on the Internet behave honestly, but there are always some troublemakers. What risks might you encounter online? And what practical steps can you take to keep yourself safe and happy?Bandits on the Information Superhighway provides a crash course in Internet "street smarts," revealing realistic risks that every user should know about. In addition, this book debunks the overhyped scare stories about Net pornography, computer crime, and dangers to children, perpetuated by the uninformed media. The Net really is a safe place, as long as you take a few simple precautions. Bandits provides that knowledge.Bandits covers online privacy, fake money-making schemes, deceptive advertising, electronic junk mail and "spamming," safe buying and selling, advice for parents, online romance do's and don'ts, pranks and hoaxes, users' rights, and much more.This book will show you:
<ul>
<li>How much privacy you have on the Net, and how you can get more</li>
<li>How to spot common Internet scams, like "get rich quick" schemes and deceptive advertising, and where to look for help if you get ripped off</li>
<li>The "Ten Commandments" of buying and selling personal items on the Net, when you don't know the other people involved</li>
<li>What every parent should know about the Internet, and the simple truth behind popular "scare stories" about pornography and pedophiles</li>
<li>The risks of meeting, trusting, or falling in love with people that you've never met in the flesh</li>With first-person anecdotes, technical tips, and the advice of experts from diverse fields, Bandits on the Information Superhighway helps you identify and avoid risks online, so you can have a more productive and enjoyable time on the Internet.</ul>

Bandits on the Information Superhighway

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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide

Linux Security Cookbook: Security Tools & Techniques

Linux Pocket Guide

MediaWiki: Wikipedia and Beyond

Efficient Linux at the Command Line: Boost Your Command-Line Skills

Linux Pocket Guide

Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide: Take Command of Your Mac

Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands

Bandits on the Information Superhighway