0.3. Reading This Book

This book is roughly divided into three parts. The first three chapters are a general introduction to SSH, first at a high level for all readers (Chapter 1, "Introduction to SSH" and Chapter 2, "Basic Client Use"), and then in detail for technical readers (Chapter 3, "Inside SSH").

The next nine chapters cover SSH for Unix. The first two (Chapter 4, "Installation and Compile-Time Configuration" and Chapter 5, "Serverwide Configuration") cover SSH installation and serverwide configuration for system administrators. The next four (Chapter 6, "Key Management and Agents"-Chapter 9, "Port Forwarding and X Forwarding") cover advanced topics for end users, including key management, client configuration, per-account server configuration, and forwarding. We complete the Unix sequence with our recommended setup (Chapter 10, "A Recommended Setup"), some detailed case studies (Chapter 11, "Case Studies"), and troubleshooting tips (Chapter 12, "Troubleshooting and FAQ").

The remaining chapters cover SSH products for Windows and the Macintosh, plus brief overviews of implementations for other platforms (Chapter 13, "Overview of Other Implementations").

Each section in the book is numbered, and we provide cross-references throughout the text. If further details are found in Section 7.1.3.2, "Global and local files", we use the notation [Section 7.1.3.2, "Global and local files"] to indicate it.

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