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Show HN: Try `ssh hackinto.sysengquiz3.host`, a Linux/Systems/Docker challenge

Posted by phred_pui on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:46AM
from the show-hn dept.

we've launched this quiz to search for a Site Reliability Engineer. So far about 60 people are in the hall of fame: http://endscreen.sysengquiz3.host/halloffame.htmlIn order to secure yourself you should: - set `UseRoaming no` in your ssh conf - connect with the `-o PubkeyAuthentication=no` option of ssh

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Re:Is this a smart way to find a good sysadmin? on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @07:06AM (#4937134)
Cut doesn't work for finding a specific user. Grep could work, indeed, when using -o. But this is not supported in posix grep - clarified in the quiz that I meant the posix variant.
Re:Is this a smart way to find a good sysadmin? on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:11AM (#4936562)
The presumption was that puppet is an important standard in System Engineering and thus important to know or at least to understand quickly (the stage is solvable also without puppet knowledge, the errors are in the brackets/puncutation)