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<dd>ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-589-1

<dd>October 2014, 248 pp.

The first sentence of this book is "This is a book about building the

network you need." Taking it from there, Peter walks you through the whys

and the hows of building the high performance, low maintenance network you need,

using OpenBSD tools.

The book covers all bases, from the basic one machine configuration and basic

local area networks, all the way up to configurations with traffic shaping and

load balancing with "self-healing" networks and countermeasures against common

problems such as DoS attempts and spamming. A basic understanding of TCP/IP

and some Unix knowledge is assumed.

The official book website for a sample chapter, table of contents and errata

can be found <a href="https://nostarch.com/pf3">here</a>.

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<dd>ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-476-4

<dd>April 2013, 536 pp.

Michael W. Lucas brings us the long anticipated second edition of his

wildly successful book about using OpenBSD. This book covers all aspects of

the OpenBSD system for new UNIX and BSD users alike.

The official Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition website is

<a href="https://www.michaelwlucas.com/os/ao2e">here</a>.

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<dd>ISBN 03-21193-66-0

<dd>April 2004, 520 pp.

A guide for system and network administrators who need to move to a

more secure operating system and a reference for seasoned OpenBSD users

who want to fully exploit every feature of the system. This book

covers all aspects of OpenBSD, including systrace, Kerberos V, IPv6 and

IPsec, and the development environment.

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The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System

<dd>by Marshal Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels, John S. Quarterman

<dd>ISBN-10: 0132317923

<dd>ISBN-13: 978-0132317924

<dd>

At 549 pages plus an index, this book must be considered comprehensive.

McKusick, Bostic and Karels are well known as prime movers at

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4.4BSD User's Reference Manual (URM)

<dd>published by O'Reilly, 1994

<dd>

This is just a reprint of the man pages for users.

Your OpenBSD distribution includes the online man pages,

which are specific to OpenBSD, and more up to date. So

you don't need this one: use the man command instead.

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three freenix BSDs covering the essentials of installation, X configuration

and system administration, as well as PERL programming and tips on

LaTeX/Lyx. The book also covers the KDE desktop environment.

Includes older versions of OpenBSD on the two included CD-ROMs.

<a href="http://www.lob.de/isbn/9783932311314">Lehmann's Online Bookshop</a>.

However, you might want to pick up a more recent version of the CD-ROM.

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<dt>Unix Made Easy

<dd>by John Muster

<dd>A general Unix book that covers all areas of the system.

<dt>UNIX Power Tools

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<dt>UNIX System Administration Handbook

<dd>by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein

<dd>

This is an excellent book on Unix system administration.

<dt id="book11">Sudo Mastery

<dd>by Michael W. Lucas

<dd>ISBN-13: 978-1493626205

<dd>ISBN-10: 1493626205

<dd>October 2013, 144pp.

<dd>Access Control for Real People

Unix-like operating systems use a rudimentary access control system:

the root account can do anything, while other users are peasants with

only minimal access. This worked fine in UNIX's youth, but today,

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<dt>Unix Systems for Modern Architectures

<dd>by Curt Schimmel

<dd>

This book leads its reader through all the low-level kernel models for

multi-processing architectures.

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<dd>by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike

<dd>

Brian Kernighan had a hand in two other books which we recommend even though they're not UNIX specific, but are useful to programmers on UNIX and elsewhere.

This book covers practical programming considerations for C, C++ and Java.

Highly recommended.

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<dd>by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger

<dd>

This book is similar to The Practice of Programming, but older. The

examples are given in Fortran and PL/I.

<dt>Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (3rd Edition)

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not how to use your compiler or anything else.

<dt>C: A Reference Manual

<dd>by Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele

<dd>

If you only had two books on C, then along with The C Programming Language, this would be your second one!

This book is not a tutorial (hence the title), it deals with syntax, data types,

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<dt>IPsec: The New Security Standard for the Internet, Intranets and Virtual

Private Networks

<dd>by Naganand Doraswamy and Dan Harkins

<dd>

This book explains the IPsec protocol suite. It also describes its relation

to the current deployments, such as VPNs, and future ideas.

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<dt>Managing NFS and NIS

<dd>by Hal Stern

<dd>

Gives essential information with examples on managing NFS and NIS.

<dt>802.11 Security

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<dt>Handbook of Applied Cryptography

<dd>by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone

<dd>A new and detailed look at Cryptography. The authors write:

<dd>

... Public-key cryptographic techniques

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needs a wider scope of coverage within the area of cryptography.

It is a necessary and timely guide for professionals who practice

the art of cryptography.

<dd>The entire book is

available for free downloading</a> (for personal use only)

from the book authors' site, in PDF or PostScript.