Meetings:2006-01

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday January 10, 2006

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

SSH Mysteries Revealed Live!

Speaker

Robert Brockway

Description

Robert will take us through the mysteries of Wikipedia:Ssh live and exclusive at a GTALUG meeting. The talk will cover the ssh protocol and the OpenSSH client and server. The topics covered will include:

• Introduction
  • What is ssh
  • The history of ssh

• Meaty Stuff
  • Advantages and disadvantages of ssh vs the alternatives
  • Generating RSA and DSA keys using ssh-keygen
  • Use of compression (how, when, why)
  • Use of ssh-agent
  • Use of agent forwarding and X11 forwarding
  • Use of ssh tunnels
  • Use of misc ssh options
  • Restricting commands that may be executed through ssh
  • Discussion of allowing ssh directly as root

• Theory
  • How the ssh protocol negotiates a connection

• Question & Answer
  • A chance to ask questions about ssh (or anything else really)

Speaker Bio

Originally from Australia, Robert has been living in Toronto since 2003 with his Jamaican-Canadian wife. Robert has been using Unix since 1992, Linux since 1994 and uses ssh day in and day out. Robert has been running Linux exclusively on the desktop since 1996. If you get a chance, ask Robert to describe running X-Window in 4Mb of RAM on a 486DX-33.

Robert is a founding director and the CEO of OpenTrend Solutions Ltd a Toronto based open source consultancy with clients in North America, Europe and Australia.

Robert loves open source, open standards, thin clients, 80s pop & rock music, hiking and roller blading. He dislikes dictatorships, attacks on free speech and most of all pumpkin. Robert is currently researching the possibility of links between high levels of pumpkin consumption and the erosion of the rule of law in developed nations.

Location

   Room GB220, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto 

Map

http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/ http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=35+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON&hl=en