YES! Now I can tell people where they can pre-order print. And they will stop bugging me. ;-)
Seriously, I'm delighted to be able to do this. I'm giving the books to the OpenBSD project at my cost. I expect them to use the proceeds well, on barbeque and beer. Maybe even some code. You'll notice that the OpenBSD folks are charging cover price. That's because this is a fundraiser. I don't make anything on these books, but that's okay. It'll be available through all the usual online booksellers later. Amazon will have it cheaper, and I'll get profits from those sales. But I'm thinking that the people on this list will want the OpenBSD-direct version. ==ml On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 05:27:49PM -0700, Austin Hook wrote: > Here's the entry I just finished adding to OpenBSD's books.html page > > <clip> > SSH Mastery > by Michael Lucas > ISBN-13: 978-1470069711 > ISBN-10: 1470069717 > February 2012, 145 pp. > A guide to what you need to know about SSH. This book will help you > eliminate passwords on your network, tunnel unencrypted protocols through > secure channels, build VPNs with OpenSSH, and more. Focuses on the OpenSSH > server, the OpenSSH client, and the PuTTY client. Michael W Lucas is the > author of Absolute OpenBSD and other BSD books. Helping support OpenBSD, > Michael is contributing all his author's profits, from orders via the main > OpenBSD order page, back to the project. > [ Order direct from the OpenBSD website International.] > </clip> > > A book like this is great for those of us that have a lot on our plate. > I can remember a long period when I kind of knew what OpenSSH could do > but just didn't have the time to parse out the man page to properly to > forward a browser port or a mail port, to set up a VPN, and I could have > benefited a lot sooner with a bit more well explained cookbook examples > at my fingertips. Then there's that pesky stuff with keep alive and so > on. What does it all really mean for the context I was having trouble > with? > > Hey, I wonder if Michael has anything to say about the safety of even > using OpenSSH variants on a different operating system to access one of my > OpenBSD boxen. I'm looking forward to read my own copy. > > Yes, this book has already been out in electronic form for a bit, but > myself I spend too much time looking at screen and I still like the > physical experience of handling a book. Besides, the printed version > already benefits from reader corrections to the electronic edition. > > Michael has been very gracious with timely help to enable the main OpenBSD > website to be the first to offer it, It will be available everywhere soon, > but we do have a jump on it this time. It's been so long for us since we > last enjoyed Michael's style that we enjoyed in Absolute OpenBSD, I am > really happy to see him come back to us with this new volume. > > There will be a slight delay before the first copies arrive and can be > shipped, but the order site is already set up. > > https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?B09=1&B08%2b=Add > > > > Austin -- Michael W. Lucas http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/ Latest book: SSH Mastery http://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/ssh-mastery mwlu...@blackhelicopters.org, Twitter @mwlauthor
