Tootfinder

Just so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:
If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling …

No, really, creating a login role account so multiple people can have access to support a system is very bad.
— How I make developers look at me incredulously.
#InfoSec #Sysadminnery

Had an account manager feed me slop to “help” me address a MS365 problem today. Turns out Copilot is poorly informed about how today’s MS365 operates.
In its defense, it DID give me the key phrase that I needed to search for to understand the problem. It just told me to look for it in places where it is not. An actual web search enlightened me.
#Sysadminnery

Today MS365 forgot the existence of both of the 2 rarely-used accounts I have with them solely for the purpose of supporting one of our largest clients. Then an hour later they remembered my existence, so I could reset the password that needed resetting.
How do people use this garbage and find it acceptable?
#Sysadminnery

RE: #Sysadminnery

Some people might call it a company culture problem that all of our customers are used to just emailing my boss whenever they have issues. I call it a way for his vacations to also be effective time off for me…
Of course, what I do on those days is all the tech debt stuff that I can never get done while firefighting.
#Sysadminnery

The metric of the day is “oom-kills per hour”
I is SRE
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Cool. After an hour of trying to log into an actively DDoS’d webserver, all 5 retry cycles seem to have reached authentication…
#Sysadminnery

I’m building a toolchain to get OpenSSH 10 running on CentOS 6 on a production box to fix backups, in case anyone is envying my July 4 festivities.
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It’s really appalling how much time I waste trying to figure out which antique browsers on which platforms I need to run to talk to all of the antique hardware that I support.
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I started out trying to fix a problem between my Nextcloud Desktop client and one server, ended up submitting a patch to MacPorts for an update to the cadaver port. Perfectly normal sequence.
(Nextcloud client DOES NOT use cadaver)
#Sysadminnery

LOL…
Just wasted most of a day and all of my capacity for diplomacy on a customer whose problem amounted to “Microsoft has a feature I dislike.”
It’s called “Focused Inbox” and while I also now believe it to be a flawed feature, I believe that it provides some users with something they want, and that their provider of $REDACTED just has to deal with not being that important to users…
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I wish I understand *why* what I did fixed the problem that I still don’t understand, but it did.
I was just trying to get all 5 VMs involved onto one host so I could snoop on the traffic between them more easily.
I’m blaming stuck ARP or Spanning Tree. Two of those VMs were briefly fighting over the same IP last night before I fixed the freshly-minted clone to use its proper new one.
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RE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/116692326777473465
“Seem” is a favorite word…
The machine was gummed up to the point where fail2ban saw my failed logins as an attack.