What r/sysadmin is talking about this week

8:30am I deleted my entire production environment. All VMs rm -r out of existence. Fortunately I was reviewing my nightly backups at the time tracking a retired VM that was inexplicably still...

Today is Aaron’s birthday. I take time each year to remember and honor his work and life. His work still impacts mine on a daily basis. Loved and remembered, he left us too soon....

He spilled water on his computer. Whatever, I have another computer ready and set up with autopilot. He is an hour away, and he has a coworker who can bring the laptop. Sure! The only issue is, I...

Just got this PM "Hey! Your comment in the r/sysadmin thread on securing legacy and manufacturing environments, about terminating VPNs at the firewall so traffic can be inspected, was really...

It can't be just me that has user after user trying to get approval for their vibe coded AI apps that are often only simple automations but ask for near-privileged access to the tenants. They...

Hello everyone, I downloaded this tool one day out of boredom because I had heard so much about it. One day, one of our computers came back from a different plant, but our admin password wasn't...

Between the total disfunction in the organization, the seeming lack of accountability of management and the apathy of the IT-adjacent application owners, developers, stakeholders etc who don't...

just venting a bit. leadership loves quoting how many hours AI is saving everyone. what i dont hear about is the hours it creates, bc a good chunk of those seem to land with us i get tickets now...

After 6 years at my current Sr. Sys Admin/IT Director role, I left my job and I'm going to just chill for the rest of the year. It's all fun and games when you're up in the corporate chain but...

OpenSSH will accept any password between 257 and 1024 characters when it's built against musl libc, has PAM disabled (which is true for Alpine) and allows password authentication, so update...