Mastering Secure Shell (SSH)

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Requirements

Lecture 3: Lab Environment

Chapter 2: Little SSH History, Background & a quick demo

Lecture 1: Introduction to SSH

Lecture 2: SSH History

Lecture 3: Quick SSH Demo

Lecture 4: Additional Resources – Reading

Lecture 5: Assignment #1 – Lab Setup

Chapter 3: SSH Usage Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: SSH from a Windows Machine using Putty

Lecture 3: SSH from a Linux Machine

Lecture 4: SSH from a Mac machine

Lecture 5: Running commands on the remote host

Lecture 6: Running a local script on the remote host

Lecture 7: Connect to a remote host with SSH running on a non-default port

Lecture 8: Assignment #2 – Basic Usage

Chapter 4: File Transfer using SSH (SCP & SFTP)

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Coping files to/from remote machine using "scp"

Lecture 3: Coping a directory to/from a remote machine using "scp"

Lecture 4: Assignment #3 – Transferring Files

Chapter 5: Understanding Public/Private Keys

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Understanding Key-pair (Public & Private Keys) Authentication

Lecture 3: SSH Keys setup – Overview

Lecture 4: Generating a key-pair on a Linux Machine and Connecting using the key-pair

Lecture 5: Generating a key-pair on a Windows Machine and Connecting using the key-pair

Lecture 6: Generating a key-pair on a MAC and Connecting using the key-pair

Lecture 7: Assignment #4 – RSA Key-pair setup between two Linux machines.

Lecture 8: Assignment #5 – RSA Key-pair setup between a windows machine and linux machine.

Chapter 6: SSH Server Setup

Lecture 1: OpenSSH installation – Fedora

Lecture 2: OpenSSH installation – Centos

Lecture 3: OpenSSH installation – Ubuntu

Chapter 7: Understanding Jump Server (A.K.A Bastion Host)

Lecture 1: What is a JumpBox?

Lecture 2: SSH to a Server that is behind a Jump Server

Chapter 8: Port Tunneling

Lecture 1: What is port Tunneling?

Lecture 2: Port Tunneling Demo 1 (Local Forwarding)

Lecture 3: Port Tunneling Demo 2 (Remote Forwarding)

Lecture 4: Assignment #6 – Port Forwarding

Chapter 9: X11 Forwarding

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What is X11 Forwarding?

Lecture 3: X11 Forwarding – Xming Installation on Windows

Lecture 4: Demo 1 – X11 Server on Windows

Lecture 5: Demo 2 – Linux

Lecture 6: Assignment #7 – X11

Chapter 10: Securing SSH

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: SSH related files

Lecture 3: Securing SSH

Lecture 4: Assignment #8 – SSH Security

Chapter 11: Using SSH tools/commands

Lecture 1: The Problem

Lecture 2: Scan Remote SSH Servers

Lecture 3: Develop a script to generate key-pairs

Lecture 4: Push your public key to remote machines without manually copying

Lecture 5: Using SSH Agent to load identities

Lecture 6: Module Conclusion

Chapter 12: Bonus: Amazon AWS – SSH to EC2 Linux Instance

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: AWS Signup

Lecture 3: Creating a Linux Instance & Connecting using Putty & SSH command

Chapter 13: Bonus!

Lecture 1: Bonus!