Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xii 2nd from top line |
In First Edition - [5/01] printing: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page xiii 3rd line from bottom |
In First Edition - [5/01] printing: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Other Digital Version | ch8 section "Security issues" |
The phrase "sense of false security" should be "false sense of security". The former means that the person would become suspicious of the security being false. Presumably, the author meant that the sense was false, not just the security, and that the sense was of security, not insecurity. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Jeremy Laidman | Jan 07, 2013 | |
Printed | Page iv In the last line of the first paragraph, changed "the the topic of SSH" |
to "the topic of SSH." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page xiii In the second line of the last paragraph, changed "measns" to "means". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | ||
Printed | Page xiii At the top of the page |
...Unix SSH versions" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page xiii 6th from last line |
"new terms whre they are defined." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page xiii Third from last line |
labeled K. "Secured" measns encrypted, ... |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 38-39 The last line on page 38 and the first two lines on page 39 |
("SecureFX... with SSH1") have been replaced with the following text: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Page 40 2nd paragraph on page. First para under "3.2.1 How Secure is Secure" |
The sentence: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Evan Russenberger-Rosica | Nov 23, 2017 | ||
Printed | Page 43 last paragraph |
Change "should it be distinguish" to Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 45 section 3.1.5, last sentence |
"access SSH public keys on remote machines" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 64 2nd line of config file sample (in constant width type) |
"...domains one.foo.org and two.foo.com" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 75 bullet list |
In the bullet list at the top of the page (and the bottom of the Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 82 third paragraph, fourth sentence |
Text reads: "The following example shows the public keys for one SSH server running Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 84 first sentence, fifth paragraph |
Text reads: "Since ssh-signer2 is a relatively small and simple, ..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 88 paragraph 5 |
Shouldn't the sentence Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 88 In the third line of the fourth paragraph of section 3.8, changed "over a |
the single" to "over the single". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 89 In the footnote, changed "SSH1" to "SSH-1." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | ||
Printed | Page 90 In the last paragraph, changed the sshd2_config file's path from |
"/etc/sshd2_config" to "/etc/ssh2/sshd2_config". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 96 I believe there is an error on page 96 of the SSH, the Secure Shell |
book, printing date February 2001. In section 3.9.2.3, the description of the Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 153 5.4.2.2, example |
cf. the box on p. 155 and p. 363: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 154 In the last paragraph, changed "more than ListenAddress line" to "more |
than one ListenAddress line". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 155 |
Editing /etc/services: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 178,179 Second paragraph on 178 and Second paragraph on 179 |
On 178 the indication is that only SSH1 & SSH2 support the '@host' construct Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 179 mid-page |
Section 5.5.2.1 addresses Account access control, specifically use of AllowUsers and Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 179 Last line of code before last paragraph |
Line reads: "AllowUsers "*@10.1.1.[:isdigit:]##" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 182 second line of second paragraph of 5.5.2.3 |
sentence reads: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 183 Last line before bulleted list |
The title of the bulleted list reads: "As for AllowHosts and DenyHosts:". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 190 In the second sentence of section 5.6.4.1, the command "touch /etc/ |
login" now reads "touch /etc/nologin". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 213 1st paragraph |
The end of the sentence should be corrected to "... your public Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 215 In last sentence of #3 |
Last sentence of number three reads: "Therefore, keys are a quick and convenient Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 219 In the middle of the page, changed the command line |
$ unset SSH_AGENT_PID |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 230 First complete paragraph, lines 4-6. |
Line 4, second-last word: typo "USENRAME" should be "USERNAME". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 241 Figure 7-1 |
In the right-hand column ("Files" for the SSH server), there are some typos. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 242 In the second paragraph of section 7.1.3, deleted the paragraph separator |
in the first line, after "specifying 276". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 242 Section 7.1.3 (Client Configuration Files), second paragraph, first line |
"In a client configuration file, client settings are changed by specifying 276 <linebreak> keywords and values." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 246 The last sentence in the first paragraph said that "the earliest value |
takes precedence" when the same keyword has multiple values. This is true for |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 254 In the SSH2 column of the table at the bottom of the page, the first |
section (sally-account: User sally) and third section (sally*-account: Host |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 254 |
The sentence immediately following the table did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 265 |
The second paragraph used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 266 |
The third line of the second paragraph used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 266 first complete paragraph, third line, third word |
"contains name" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 279 |
The last paragraph of the second bulleted item used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 279 |
The third line of the second to last paragraph used to read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 292 |
The last sentence in the second-to-last paragraph did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 300 8.2.4.1, 2nd sentence |
... at least as secure a ... Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 311 section 8.2.7 |
The "idle-timeout" directive is described as being applicable to both SSH1 and OpenSSH. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 311 First sentence on page |
First sentence reads: "Timeouts are set in with the idle-timeout option." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 323 In the last line of the second-to-last paragraph, changed |
"(localhost,143) to (H,2001)" to "(H,2001) to (localhost,143)." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 324 In the warning, replaced the sentence beginning |
"There would have to be a way..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 330 first sentence of last paragraph |
First sentence reads: "In addition to any physical network interfaces it may have, a Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 331 In the first footnote, changed "24 million" to "16 million." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | ||
Printed | Page 332 In the command after the 2nd paragraph, changed |
$ ssh1 ... |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 341 Third sentence of second paragraph |
Sentence reads: "You log into one of these machines using SSH, and want to run an Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 344 Figure 9-10 X forwarding |
Currently, the dotted circle on the left is labelled "X client" |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 351 |
The sixth line in section 9.3.6.1 did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 352 |
The first line did read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 356 In the description for sshdfwd-N, only "sshdfwd-2001" should be in |
constant width font; "service" should not. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 361 --without-rsh |
The book says "... or at runtime in the server-wide configuration file." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 390 3rd full para |
Last sentence: /decisions based on the their contents Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 392 Note (footprints) |
s/port -orwarding/port forwarding/ Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 406 fourth typed code (constant width) example |
the third constant width code example cites the -q argument to ssh (for Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 407 Example Code (Perl) |
line 15: "else if" HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH "elsif" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 461 Just below the www.oreilly.com URL |
The label "Authors' Online Resources" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 467 Contact row of the Mathur Port column |
The URL "ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/contrib/" |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 470 Chapter 13, Section 13.4 |
ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/contrib/ssh.el |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 509 keyword Macs |
keyword Macs should be MAC (according to p. 165) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 509 keyword IgnoreRootRhosts |
p. 169 says the meaning of the keyword IgnoreRootRhosts is to ignore /.rhosts Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 509 keyword IgnoreUserKnownHosts |
keyword IgnoreUserKnownHosts is valid for OpenSSH only (according to p. 171) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 512 keyword Host |
keyword Host does not mark the beginning of a section for SSH2; for SSH2 it defines a host's real name (cf. 244 + 248) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 512 keyword FallBackToRsh |
keyword FallBackToRsh applies to SSH2 as well (according to p. 269) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 514 keyword PGPSecretKeyFile |
keyword PGPSecretKeyFile is not a ssh keyword (cf. p. 172) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 514 keyword UseRsh |
keyword UseRsh applies to SSH2 as well (according to p. 269) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 515 option -g |
option -g applies to SSH1 and OpenSSH only (according to p. 323) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 519 Environment Variables |
SSH2_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is missing under environment variables (see p. 304) |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 541 In the second paragraph of the Colophon, changed "mollusca" to |
"Mollusca." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 |