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Wikibook on OpenSSH

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I'm now submitting the Wikibook on OpenSSH for consideration to be a featured book before too many years pass and require a major revision. I've been maintaining the book, adding updates as new versions of OpenSSH add, remove, or change functionality so it has stayed up to date. As it stands now, it seems to cover all the major categories and the Cookbook section more than covers the major use-cases. During the last half year (all that stats are available) the Cookbook sections are seeing a fair amount of daily use. The daily usage pattern shows peaks on work days and troughs during the weekends and European holidays, suggesting it is used for work. I also believe that it now meets the six criteria for a Good Book, which are prerequisites.

OpenSSH

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Done, consensus for promotion achieved. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 11:34, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken the Wikibook on OpenSSH about as far as I can for the time being and would appreciate feed back on taking it further. It's more or less nearing completion in my opinion, and being used, and in need of some review.

Aside from a technical review where I would track down those with domain expertise and check the accuracy of the book, what other actions are needed to make it ready? I'm thinking in particular of whatever wikification remaining or needing fixing. I've recently added some navigation aids, and posted a request to the Textbooks-L mailing list, but what else is needed to ensure that I have all the t's crossed and i's dotted? -- Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 09:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I've read it one month ago and have found it pretty good, but I didn't have the time to enter each command, which would be the first step to improve it. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 11:18, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, at this point it is probably ready for consideration as a Featured Book. Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 15:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've now added the "featured book candidate" template to the book's main page to raise discussion. Larsnooden (discuss • contribs) 15:54, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support 136 pages without any maintenance left seems good to me. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 16:51, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support These are quite few gems in Wikibooks that are finishing completion Encik Tekateki (discuss • contribs) 16:14, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Needs a bit more work. Add at least one tutorial or workflow for one platform, especially Windows. The tutorial should be easy-to-read for users that can't fix tutorials or are compiler devs, but have basic reading comprehension and reasoning ability. Use the scrambled info in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Public_Key_Authentication and in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Host-based_Authentication and polish it a bit.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Client_Configuration_Files#Managing_Keys needs to be expanded. and currently, it seems to be superficial text.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Automated_Backup; first para, line "sudo(8) works just fine -- if properly configured." could be improved. I know what it implies in theory, but in practice?
add missing links to rsync, tar, different ssh implementations; debugging common issues; where it makes sense. especially in https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Automated_Backup
sorry to be so abrupt and extremely succint. I like to improve this wikibook, premature upgrade to "featured books" are not a good gift to the unsuspecting. Retow324 (discuss • contribs) 01:39, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for these constructive critics. I think that:
  1. Add at least one tutorial: this is present for Unix-like OS, in the two pages "Client Configuration Files" and "Server". As far as I could see in datacenters, OpenSSH server is generally used in Linux, so Windows shouldn't be mandatory to get the featured book label.
  2. The tutorial should be easy-to-read, we can certainly vulgarize but that's not a condition to get the featured book label.
  3. OpenSSH/Client_Configuration_Files#Managing_Keys needs to be expanded. Do you want to talk about Keypass or another manager?
  4. About OpenSSH/Cookbook/Automated Backup:
JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 20:47, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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