Bind 9.9 – Binary DNS Slave file format
Bind 9.9.x defaults slave zone files to binary format. This is how you get back to the easier-to-manage text format if you don’t need the microscopic performance boost that binary files provide.
sudo + sssd + ldap
In my quest to implement sssd, my focus turned towards sudo. Centralizing the sudo rules to an LDAP server (or cluster) simplifies management of users and access. Rather than /etc/sudoers files on each machine, sudo can look in to LDAP for a specific user’s rules. The path of a query is: sudo command requested ->
sssd and tmpfs
After my previous efforts to migrate to sssd, it was discovered after a reboot that sssd and a tmpfs /var/log did not play well together. sssd has a couple of minor faults: If the default /var/log/sssd directory does not exist, sssd will not start It does not create the default /var/log/sssd directory if one does