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[kalidor.livejournal.com]

No .. I will not give the receptionist the administrator password on the server.


Geeze

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[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

why do they always say "but it not like im going to tell any one"...

you may not, but im scared what you could do with your pee sized intellect in under 3 minutes...

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i don't even give people their email passwords, and I don't let them set them themselves, instead relying on the old bash-the-keyboard twice method.

i worry enough about letting them set their own screensaver passwords...

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

In the same vein, no, I'm not going to send out an Exchange Administrator to your desk to set up the permissions on your mailbox since you're too stupid to follow my instructions and then proceed to tell me that *I* am the stupid one and re-demand an Exchange Administrator.

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

ouch .. someone did that?

I hope their email quota just dropped to 3 K

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

btw .. friending ya ^^x
if it's ok?

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Sure, she started off the call insulting my intelligence and ended up with "Well, that's why I asked for an EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATOR at the beginning of the call!" And I'm thinking, "Well, if you had bothered to troubleshoot with me, we'd have this solved by now...."

[redqueenmeg.livejournal.com]

Friend away. :)

[kalidor.livejournal.com]

Oh .. but that's easy.

BCP Manual - IDM version -

Site Infrastructure Operation Manual -

Both have critical level passwords documented. Both are locked in my desk. And if I do die, the keys to my desk are marked return to .
The site manager also has copies but he's not stupid enough to abuse the keys. He knows what would happen to his quota's otherwise.

[taii.livejournal.com]

where I work, we have a system called "Break glass" which allows engineers access to IDs with high security levels.
They're usually IDs set up specifically for a certain role and are disabled until they're actually required

I had to question the engineer who proceeded to tell me that the account name he required for a sybase server (and consequently the password) was...
(highlight to read...)


My initial thought was "you have to be shitting me...

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

"hold on, lemme get this post-it pad out of my drawer... ok go ahead"

In the same vein..

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

I work at a university (not the admin or support... just a labrat) and overheard a confrontation between our admin and a professor who decided to install a rootkit in order to create an administrative acct. for himself.
"b-b-but I just wanted to see what you guys could do that I couldn't.." was his justification.

I had to get out of the room in order not to laugh in the guy's face.

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

"the one i keep stuck to the side of my monitor"

Re: In the same vein..

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

"b-b-but I just wanted to see what you guys could do that I couldn't.."

"...terminate your account with extreme prejudice? Send campus security around to toss your ass in a dumpster? Have you fired?"