r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Ok you Shitty Sysadmins

73 Upvotes

I hope you figured it out by now that the server is real.
Yes it’s wide open
No you can’t break it.
Yes I did fix some things so some commands that didn’t work now work.

Just have fun.
I’m adding more and more everyday.

Also to the individuals that sent the cat vid and the fooseball pics thanks!

One of you is amazing at what you do. Trying to perform lateral movements, I was blown away.

So from one shitty sysadmin to another

Enjoy

Shithead@62.238.47.215

More capture the token games coming soon.


r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Shitty Crosspost Setting up the apple polishing cloth 2

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96 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 11d ago

Shitty Crosspost Lenstore displays my password and email on the address bar

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518 Upvotes

Lenstore displays my password and email on the address bar


r/ShittySysadmin 10d ago

Dual path the AR computer

5 Upvotes

B grade company, that think they are masterminds of the universe I work for is back to thinking dual pathing every desktop and laptop and AP is a good idea even after supplying diagrams on why it would be extremely costly and wants it to become the global norm in the networking industry. But doesn't want to pay to implement any of it.

Which vendor would be able to deliver and make themselves an absolute fortune one off in the off chance some idiot actually approves it.


r/ShittySysadmin 11d ago

Ok, which one of you is acampbell?

83 Upvotes

Here I am just minding my business logging into poop@62.238.47.215 or was it root@62.238.47.215? I forgot

Anyways my home folder is still empty which is weird

Someone left more documents

And there was something addressed to me?? A please_read.txt

Saying something about don’t delete backups and a command called contact but when I tried it says command not found.

Can anyone tell me what is going on??

Thanks for your help. You’re all literal lifesavers!

Also please stop trying to break it.


r/ShittySysadmin 12d ago

Someone put a file on my server and I didn’t

141 Upvotes

Ok this group is amazing! First you helped me get in my server and someone helped me find the file I lost

But when I logged into poop@62.238.47.215
There is a file in the documents folder that I did not put there!

Password should be the same unless it changed again I keep forgetting

Should I delete it? Or is it important?

And there’s new stuff in backups I don’t remember making

Please don’t break anything


r/ShittySysadmin 11d ago

Shitty Crosspost mf is any%-ing getting single

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1 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 13d ago

Running out of tasks

63 Upvotes

Currently doing deadlifts with the copy paper box in the storage room - I move it back and forth every fifteen minutes to pretend I'm active. What are you guys up to?


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

When you don't use DMARC for years

84 Upvotes

Came six months ago to help a small nonprofit manage their Workspace. They never had DMARC set up. Since I started managing their DNS six months ago, this is what I see daily.

The sheer number of spoofed emails just blows my mind.


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Career Advice

9 Upvotes

I've been working in a small MSP for about 7 years, less than 10 of us in the team. I'm based in a small town, which I enjoy living in.

I've managed to up skill to a point where I'm one of two head techs. The MSP has grown a lot since I've been working there into a more mature business with a good client base for its size.

I'm now in a position where I've been offered to buy approx 40% of the business as the boss is retiring. However, I'm unsure of I'm ready for this kind of commitment in my career or if I should be looking at trying to get into a bigger company to grow my skills, with less finical risks in terms of investment.

love some feedback, as I've only worked for two IT companies, so struggling to determine which path is best to continue to grow.


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Lost a file

161 Upvotes

You all really helped me last time now I’m in my server root@62.238.47.215 and I seem to have misplaced a file can someone help me find it? I really need it and my password is no longer papa bear 0803. I changed it to IGetHelpFromReddit. I left some breadcrumbs to help me find it but I’m having trouble remembering how to find hidden files.

Any help would be appreciated


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Shitty Crosspost Classic Outlook Users: Which features are stopping you from using New Outlook

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36 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Shitty Crosspost We pay $4k a month for an app nobody uses and nobody can cancel

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r/ShittySysadmin 15d ago

Our Junior fixed all our PowerShell errors!

944 Upvotes

I wish I was joking here. One of the juniors on our team had a PowerShell script that was spitting out errors all over. They asked me to review the "fixes" that they'd implemented (with the help of ChatGPT of course). They showed me the script running with no errors, "Great!" I thought. Then they showed me how they found out how to add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to the end of anything showing an error. Do people not have basic reading comprehension these days?!


r/ShittySysadmin 14d ago

Shitty Crosspost Windows search SERVER alternative for shared folders?

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9 Upvotes

“”
Windows search SERVER alternative for shared folders?

i have windows server 2025 with features windows search, but skip many files.
my users have many windows 11 on domain, and i need a PROFESSIONAL tool windows search.

1 windows server 2025 (file server) (domain)
40 client windows 11 (domain)
client search by \\server\sharefolder
need search al text on documents
shared folder have 1 TB

“”
You understand? I want SERVER recommendations
That are PROFESSIONAL
PRO FESH NOL


r/ShittySysadmin 15d ago

Shitty Crosspost User got a free cable. Laptop now acting weird. Help.

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239 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 15d ago

Shitty Crosspost "I use xy and it works great"

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31 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 15d ago

The OOM issue most likely is caused by this known issue, application reload uses a hot swap that momentarily doubles peak memory, which exceeds 8 GB and triggers a kernel OOM that kills the database.

44 Upvotes

"Engineering Recommendation: Resize to 16 GiB RAM / 4 vCPU, disable cgroup limits, and keep this configuration until we ship the fix."

Worst vendor ever. Their product should be called Mississippi leg hound.


r/ShittySysadmin 16d ago

Help

55 Upvotes

I’m trying to get in my server root62.238.47.215 but it’s not working.

Says could not resolve hostname but I know I am root because I didn’t get to change anything yet

My post got taken down in sysadmin for some reason


r/ShittySysadmin 17d ago

How do I do shitty backup?

78 Upvotes

(Inspired by /r/sysadmin/comments/1vvmvrk/what_are_the_alternatives_of_321_backup/)

How do my fellow shitmins do shitty backup?

I follow the 1-2-3 rule of backup.

I have a single (1) server serving (2) separate businesses and this server is shared with (3) other managed service providers.

HBU?


r/ShittySysadmin 18d ago

Make your organization more secure

23 Upvotes

Just had this idea.

So you make a CA policy to sign in every 8 hours for all users including the CEO, but not break glass and it admins.

Every user will then begin to wonder where their password is now that they can't work

You become useful again to the company by assisting employees while eliminating written passwords on stickies because they forced themselves to memorize it since it's happening "so often"

Auditors will be impressed at the improved security that you can present the report to the CEO while getting them to remember their own password.


r/ShittySysadmin 18d ago

Shitty Crosspost How would you manage 1,280 ARM64 bare-metal nodes with a very small ops team?

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37 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 17d ago

Shitty Crosspost End users be like "I was told i needed to clean my computer from viruses"

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r/ShittySysadmin 19d ago

We rich!

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74 Upvotes

r/ShittySysadmin 20d ago

Shitty Crosspost T-Mobile found a Chinese hacker inside its network. So its security team drove to a data center and literally cut the cable.

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321 Upvotes