Home

Quick References for system administration and security testing

This is a list of reference texts which I have found to be useful. Together with a collection of Windows utilities I have put them on a CD-ROM that I carry with me at work.

Applications

• GNU Emacs Reference Card Stephen Gildea. PDF full page
• MySQL DeepX. PDF
• Vim Quick Reference Card Laurent Gregoire. PDF

Network Protocols

• HTTP (RFC 1945) TXT
• IPv6 TCP/IP and tcpdump SANS Institute. PDF
• POP3 (RFC 1939) TXT
• SMTP (RFC 821) Jonathan B. Postel. TXT
• TCP/IP pocket guide SANS Institute. PDF
• HTTP Headers, identify Web servers from HTTP headers
• IP Index

Network Tools

• Advanced OpenSSH Dan Kaminsky. PDF
• OpenSSH Quick Reference Jialong He. PDF
• TCPdump Quick Reference Jialong He. PDF

Operating Systems

• Bash Quick Reference Card Arnold Robbins. PDF
• Cisco Router Quick Reference Boson Software. PDF
• Important Windows Folders and Tools Jialong He. PDF
• Linux Administrator's Quick Reference Jialong He. PDF
• Linux Security Quick Reference Guide Guardian Digital. PDF
• Sun Solaris Quick Reference Jialong He. PDF
• The One Page Linux Manual squadron. PDF

Other Texts

• Country Codes Splists Visibone. HTML
• HTML and XHTML Quick Reference Charts Ian S. Graham. PDF, Word, HTML
• Regular Expression Quick Reference Gordon McKinney. PDF
• Ethernet Vendor Codes: determine vendor from MAC address IEEE. TXT
• Port List Kurt Seifried. TXT
• Bogons: IP ranges which are not allocated (in CIDR format) TXT

Useful Links

• Jialong He, large collection of reference cards
• Quick Reference Cards
• Refcards.com
• Benjamin Jung, several XML and W3C related quick reference cards
• Foxit PDF Reader, small stand-alone PDF reader for Windows

Home