MSP guy here. Client had an incident so I got sent to their datacenter for the first time ever. Their gear lives in one of those big locked cages with a couple of racks in it.

Client's employee badges me into the cage, watches me start working, and then just... leaves. Turns out he assumed I had my own access card. I did not ,I just had a screwdriver and other tools.
Finished the actual work pretty fast. Walked over to the cage door. Locked.

Rattled it like a zoo animal for a bit. Nothing. Congrats to the client on their physical security I guess, it passed the pentest.

At this point, normally I would open my phone and start scrolling reddit but no electronics was allowed inside either.

Assessed my options:

1. Yell for help (foolish, servers very loud)

2. Stand at the door making sad eye contact with a corner

3. Sleep

I decided to take a nap on metal mesh. Couple hours later some DC tech walks past, sees an unconscious man inside the client's cage, and lets me out without asking a single question. Absolute legend.

I woke up and stood with a waffle pattern embossed on my body. Anyway, I logged the whole thing as on-site hours. Technically I have never been MORE on-site

This just popped up after opening Intel Graphics. I am scared.

We're a small company that just hired someone. I spent forever building their laptop for them. As soon as they got it, they tried to change the password I had selected for them! It was written down on a sticky note and everything.

I told them they had to come to the main office so I can could program the DC with whatever they wanted, but they just gave me a blank stare and told me that didn't sound right. I made their password nice and short so they could remember it, but they still pushed back. How do they expect me to be able to log in as them to troubleshoot issues if they can change their passwords willy-nilly?

Is it too late to fire them? This is extremely disrespectful. Can I get in trouble for taking their laptop back? I spent a long time on it and I don't think it is fair that they get to complain.

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....

Couldn't post on r/sysadmin

I just had HR call me because she said she "was on auto pilot and typed in the porn site she uses at home" into chrome instead of our company HR page. She said she doesn't know why her bain and fingers did it but she got the blocked page and realized what happened and is in a huge panic. She called me and asked if I could delete it for he before anyone sees. I had her say cuckin.com about 10 times and spell it out. This by far has been my favorite work day of my life.

https://x.com/sonam_murarkar/status/1827297095763570889?s=46

Now that we've all run out of TOTP codes I'm going to enforce 12 digit hexadecimal codes; no I will not take suggestions

How is this possibly my fault? I get a message from someone on the HR floor asking if I can send POE down a certain cable that terminates close to my office. So I do what any competent system admin would do and immediately google WTF is a POE and learn that it’s Power Over Ethernet! Who knew? Sounds a little sketchy but whatever. I found some schematics that made no sense whatsoever so I just went for it. We only have one kind of power in the building anyway. I wasn’t sure how to wire it up but one wire is sort of reddish, a bunch are white and a couple are green but I figure that a power plug works even if you yank the ground plug off and stick it in upside down (ask me how I know 😉). So I wired it up, plugged it in and went about my day. Next thing I know the fire alarm is going off and people from HR are soaking wet and streaming out the front door. They claim that my adapter is not what they meant and that when I plugged it in Grace’s phone literally exploded and started a fire. I call BS and am pretty sure they are just trying to blame me for their screw up. They were the ones who asked for power to be sent over Ethernet not me.