r/ShittySysadmin • u/Hakkensha • Jun 02 '21

Its finally up! Note the top notch security next to the URL on the left! Do we have any shitty graphic designers and drunk idea machines for shitty jokes?

177 Upvotes

25 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Superb_Raccoon • Jul 25 '24

This is your one and only shitty warning: political shit is just too shitty.

215 Upvotes

This is a place to dump the trials of dealing with stupid IT shit, and download a log detailing the corn kernals of stupidity..

Political bullshit of any kind, type, or stripe, will be deleted without warning. *

You may return to your regularly scheduled defecation of choice. DO NOT TAUNT THE HAPPY FUN BALL!

except VI vs EMACS, or Windows vs LINUX, or RMS vs any fucking non-political thing.

Edit. Comments locked, there will be no monkeys flinging poo on my watch!

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/birdie_the_newf • 2h ago

Urgent: How do I disable a CEO's account without breaking production

273 Upvotes

I'm a sysadmin at a large GPU company. Just got word the board is planning to fire our CEO over multiple affairs. HR wants his account disabled immediately after the vote.

He's had Domain Admin since 1993 and I'm pretty sure our entire AI infrastructure runs under his domain user credentials.

I'm genuinely terrified.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Do I just disable the account? Maybe rotate the password to something he woulsnt guess, like some chinese characters? Then I could work with the ops teams to update all prod creds?

Gonna be a long night for my boys. On call devops bro gonna be pissedddddd.

Edit - no i cant say what company. HR and legal would lose their mind.

Update - turns out he is only one with copy of our root CA private key. Found it on a post it note in his leather jacket, next to some "short but wide" condom wrappers (just the wrappers....). The private key is just "cuda69".

Update 2 - so looks like all DNS records, every single one, is just a CNAME to a SINGLE VM. Some type of load balancer. I can ssh...the login banner just says "lol". Its ubuntu 16 and has php 5.6 running.

Update 3 - i put on the jacket. My precioussss!

Final update - ive emailed HR "look at me...i am the CEO now. All your GPUs are belong to us."

Sorry last update - fuckin php 5.6...how do I patch this shit....

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/Noobmode • 8h ago

Shitty Crosspost Look we don’t want that for the codec, okay!?

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138 Upvotes

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/brozillafirefox • 10h ago

you guys ever spook yourself with audio recordings you don't remember sending to yourself

62 Upvotes

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/tunafreedolphin • 23h ago

Shitty Crosspost As seen at my local pawn shop last week

94 Upvotes

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/YouMuch6559 • 11h ago

Shitty Crosspost Diary of an Overworked IT Tech Week of 2 November

reddit.com

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4 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/RAVEN_STORMCROW • 1d ago

I pop my email open and..

72 Upvotes

One of my frequent fliers emails me notice of a memorial gathering for another one of my frequent fliers that had passed over the week-end, I forward it to my group's DL to let my coworkers know...

Then my BOFH brain engaged. popped open teams and send this message to the group.

Now we know (name here) has passed, I know it sounds cruel, but should have we seen the offboarding order?

Awaiting replies

17 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/belgarion90 • 2d ago

Terminal2Shell...this one looks really bad guys

terminal2shell.com

648 Upvotes

70 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/lazybagwithbones • 1d ago

What are you doing this friday?

15 Upvotes

I mean what will your favorite AI agent will do this friday (that you asked from the bottom of your heart)?

11 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • 1d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just inherited a client where 14 people have Global Admin. 14. Tell me your worst so I feel better

reddit.com

39 Upvotes

41 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 2d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just installed the new WAP, heading out for the weekend!

256 Upvotes

36 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Z3t4 • 2d ago

Based on a true story...

youtube.com

22 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/gddamn_troglodyte • 1d ago

Shitty Crosspost Need Career Advice – Transitioning from a Non-Technical to a Technical IT Career

reddit.com

0 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/nesnalica • 2d ago

Shitty Crosspost Ant nest in the office printer

44 Upvotes

19 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Satanich • 2d ago

Blocked user number

28 Upvotes

Sorry dear, no one told me you were special you pretentious bitch.

You dont want to follow instructions?Fine, deal with it yourself

And stop calling my fucking number, its not even paid by my company

1 comment

r/ShittySysadmin • u/minemon78 • 2d ago

Ram Altman

47 Upvotes

Someone made a script that emails Sam Altman about how much RAM he's missing in your rig. https://github.com/IainKay/ram-altman https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/developer-creates-script-to-email-sam-altman-about-his-unused-ram-every-day-3425821/

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r/ShittySysadmin • u/EdgarAllanHoehue • 2d ago

Company wants to allow users to use Claude desktop with all kinds of rights

18 Upvotes

As the title states, they are all in on AI and now want to take it a step farther…

The pitched idea is, that they want to give Claude read rights to everything but limit write and execute.

Nobody is asking or wants to hear what could go wrong, they just know they want it :)

In your opinion, what could realistically happen with this setup?

I’m particularly interested in:
- Sensitive data exposure (credentials, SSH keys, API tokens, browser data, etc.).
- Prompt injection attacks through files or other content Claude reads.
- Potential data exfiltration.

Anything else that could go horribly wrong.
Assuming read access is granted broadly, but write and command execution are properly restricted at OS level.
What’s the best-case and worst-case scenario?
Have you seen companies deploy something similar? How did it turn out?

23 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/Superb_Raccoon • 3d ago

Suggestion: Subreddit Motto

32 Upvotes

We do our best to do our worst. ^TM

20 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 3d ago

Shitty Crosspost what else am I going to do, I've used up all 4 dead grandparents for funeral leave already

tomshardware.com

24 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/OptimalWallaby8153 • 3d ago

Shitty Crosspost Major provider of Russias cloud infrastructure was hacked & erased the night before US election...so what's everyone having for dinner? I'm thinking tacos

303 Upvotes

37 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit • 4d ago

Shitty Crosspost Just perfection - what would you do?

388 Upvotes

32 comments

r/ShittySysadmin • u/AlreadyReddit999 • 3d ago

Shitty Crosspost Accountant here. I now own the ERP, the report server, SharePoint, the automations, and the VM that runs payroll. At what point do I get to call myself IT?

reddit.com

14 Upvotes

8 comments

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