Notes about beginning LDAP

One of the things I hadn't the chance of managing at work is centralized authentication, either via LDAP, Kerberos or ActiveDirectory (not sorry about this one). LDAP in particular, has always been in the back of my mind because it's often cited in conversation ("this service authenticates against the domain ldap server" or "the bind…

Some neat Vagrant tricks

I've been using Vagrant for a while now (though I'm not a Vagrant expert at all) and I've found myself setting some configuration over and over again as well performing some tasks on every new virtual machine the very same way I'd do on a physical one. Things I like to set on a new…

Learn how to use GNU info

Recently I've been digging a lot into GNU/Linux system administration and as part of this, I have finally taken some time to google about that mysterious info command that has been sitting here in my GNU/Linux systems, unused for years. Well, I can tell you, it has been a life-changing experience. Texinfo-based documentation is awesome.…