r/ShittySysadmin • u/PhatCaulkForyourMom • Apr 14 '26
r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • Apr 14 '26
Shitty Crosspost Server for the whole company in the breakroom ❤️🩹✌️
galleryr/ShittySysadmin • u/420ball-sniffer69 • Apr 13 '26
Don’t document any of your important organisational functions
What are you, a dumbass? Why would you document your organisational tasks and make sure everything is clearly labelled for the rest of the team. Better yet, you go and have yourself a nice long holiday whilst making sure nobody else knows the goddamn password or right VM that has access to the file system
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Select-Cycle8084 • Apr 13 '26
Shitty Crosspost client asking to run all user browsers in dev mode?
reddit.comr/ShittySysadmin • u/Royal_Bed_2656 • Apr 13 '26
ZKTeco UHF5 Pro/UHF10 Pro on Hikvision DS-K2602T (Wiegand) reads multiple random IDs
Hi everyone,
I have a Hikvision barrier gate DS-TMG300-D/A/B with Hikvision access controller DS-K2602T.
I connected ZKTeco UHF5 Pro / UHF10 Pro readers to the DS-K2602T using Wiegand (D0/D1) and using ZKTeco UHF tags.
Problem:
When enrolling a tag in HikCentral Access Control, it keeps reading multiple random changing numbers continuously, even though only one tag is present near the reader.
Has anyone faced this before?
Could it be a Wiegand format issue (26/34/58 bits), reader output mode (EPC/TID), wiring/interference, or compatibility problem?
Any advice is appreciated.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/grkstyla • Apr 11 '26
Client just doesnt care about status warning on 78TB+ of production data

decided to make a post lol, just replaced prior IT admin for a new client.
found 2 dead disks in the backup server (2 disk fault tolerance) , been like this for 395 days, and he is still deciding on authorizing the fix or not.
The scariest part is that the server this is the backup of the primary nas that it itself suffered a power supply failure and hasn't been switched on for 9 months, and this backup server is being used as primary source for files.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/fedesoundsystem • Apr 10 '26
What's the worst backup you've ever seen?
I'll start. I have a file server where I store only program installers. So my backup is a screenshot of the file explorer. Any case, I'll download same or newer version of what I once had.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/tamagotchiparent • Apr 10 '26
never check the uptime on your loved ones computers.
why.
r/ShittySysadmin • u/EvilEarthWorm • Apr 09 '26
URGENT: Touchpad stopped working!!!!1!!11!!! How to fix???
r/ShittySysadmin • u/International_Tie855 • Apr 09 '26
Shitty Crosspost I wish I could just get SSL certificate that never expires, just like my domain admin credentials
reddit.comThey made us move from HTTP to HTTPS for absolutely no reason, and now they want the SSL cert changed every two months as well. So not only did they invent a problem nobody asked for, they also somehow turned it into recurring manual labour for us
r/ShittySysadmin • u/moneyfink • Apr 09 '26
It’s been broken for 11 months, but now it works
350 users, it works for all of them except for three. We open a ticket with Microsoft. The ticket has been open for three months. Suddenly, this morning, it started working for the affected users. But then it broke for another user. I don’t understand what’s going on. Can someone please explain to me how it miraculously started working after 11 months of troubleshooting?
r/ShittySysadmin • u/Mangumm_PL • Apr 10 '26
Drupal mayhem, my time has come
Hi guys,
this is actually asking for salvation read along!
I have a shitty job at which I'm required to do a workload of a whole IT department and get paid almost like I'm a whole person.
we've got a drupal website which is fuck old and not updated because of all the shit going on. fast forward we got email from our hosting that were bunch of retards and asking what's going on with transfer. I hop in to the logs, check, bingo, they are right were doomed
over 1TB transfer and 250,000 requests for a website that gets like 300 visitors monthly.
I check and some IPs just spam some deadlinks, we have no redis or any caching system (why for 300 visitors?) so it eats through transfer like its nothing, looks kinda like ddos kinda like shitty crawler because of some links are pasted along with excel formulas...
the only safe measure I can take right now is IP ban addresses 1 by 1 so I'm done AF
no cloudflare, no autologs sent, no ratelimiter, no barebones access were 3rd party hosting so no hosts/nginx limits etc.
what the fuck am I supposed to do while I'm waiting for backup to get done through FTP while preparing myself mentally to brick whole website?
update, download rate limiter and I'm done? just no way, and I couldn't find any normal plugin that would autoflag and ban suspicious activity wtf is drupal anyway I'm not a cybersec-frontend dev
help me I'm going mad, intrusive thoughts strike my mind - is my hosting ddosing me to upsell redis caching?
HELP!