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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Junior engineer attending a senior engineering interview. Post 303029574 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 29th of January 2019 07:08:36 AM

01-29-2019

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I think you should ask, and get them to explain why certain things are true/useful/shouldn't be done or whatever to make them justify the senior tag - and pay. If they are no better than yourself, then you should apply for the job because you could show that you are capable.

Don't try to be mean and trip them up, but explore the concepts of what you do and see if there are some examples (with all the appropriate documentation) to work though on a tricky problem. IMHO, there's nothing wrong with a useful test. I'm sure no-one knows everything but you need to make the candidate know you mean business and are interested in getting a good engineer rather than just anyone. Remember that they have to agree that you are a company they want to work for too. You have to make them choose you for more reasons than just the pay.

Just my humble opinion.

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sss_obfuscate

SSS_OBFUSCATE(8)						 SSSD Manual pages						  SSS_OBFUSCATE(8)

NAME

       sss_obfuscate - obfuscate a clear text password

SYNOPSIS

       sss_obfuscate [options] [PASSWORD]

DESCRIPTION

       sss_obfuscate converts a given password into human-unreadable format and places it into appropriate domain section of the SSSD config file.

       The cleartext password is read from standard input or entered interactively. The obfuscated password is put into "ldap_default_authtok"
       parameter of a given SSSD domain and the "ldap_default_authtok_type" parameter is set to "obfuscated_password". Refer to sssd-ldap(5) for
       more details on these parameters.

       Please note that obfuscating the password provides no real security benefit as it is still possible for an attacker to reverse-engineer the
       password back. Using better authentication mechanisms such as client side certificates or GSSAPI is strongly advised.

OPTIONS

       -h,--help
	   Display help message and exit.

       -s,--stdin
	   The password to obfuscate will be read from standard input.

       -d,--domain DOMAIN
	   The SSSD domain to use the password in. The default name is "default".

       -f,--file FILE
	   Read the config file specified by the positional parameter.

	   Default: /etc/sssd/sssd.conf

SEE ALSO

       sssd-ldap(5)

AUTHORS

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