On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:13:02 -0500, Kevin Lisciotti wrote:
> use/administration so I pretty much know what I am doing. I would set up
> the box with ssh using public key authentication only (possibly
> including ip addresses), no passwords. What I am looking for is possibly
> a whitepaper or how-to on setting up a secure shell server. I have
> looked on sans.org and linuxdoc.org but have come up empty.
>
> If anyone can point me in the direction of a best practices whitepaper
> or similar, I would appreciate it.
Install openssh and take a look at the manpages.
hans@Turing:~$ apropos ssh |wc -l
25
It's quite good documented. If that doen't help:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc.html?loc=setheme
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/?loc=setheme
http://www.openssh.com/faq.html
http://www.openssh.com/list.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&r=1&w=2
http://www.google.com
With best regards
Hans
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