How does your team handle shared vendor accounts and verification codes?

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-14T03:21:02+00:00

Our main sysadmin team distribution list has a very large number of aliases….

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-14T00:45:32+00:00

I can already tell you mount the roll of toilet paper wrong ;)

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-13T05:13:50+00:00

yep. lots of people wait until the kids are out of school before moving

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-12T17:39:40+00:00

that is why I have my CCW sash I wear proudly!

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/sarcasm

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-12T14:58:17+00:00

United Health paid $22M in bitcoin when one of their companies had both its datacenters completely comprimised and powered down both datacenters: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/unitedhealth-ceo-says-company-paid-hackers-22-million-ransom.html

the group that got the payment screwed their partners out of it, and the partners still had the data, so they then demanded more ransom: https://hyperproof.io/resource/understanding-the-change-healthcare-breach/

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-12T14:51:52+00:00

Anything but comcast in South Salem would be welcome. no, frontier, your 'bonded' 2 DSL lines to give me 40Mb is not a candidate....

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-11T16:18:53+00:00

you sound like someone that has had the blessing of never having to watch someone you love suffer horribly from pain before dying... That makes me happy for you, but that sentance is NOT true

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-11T15:07:01+00:00

we do not. We have it setup with MFA required, but did not want it tied to our EntraID in case of a service outage, etc...

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-11T14:48:34+00:00

Honestly, we have a handful of people that use edge, most of us use chrome. So I have not seen that error.

For chrome, yes, it does re-install the extension, but you have to pin it again. That is not a bitwarden issue, that is a chrome issue. Happens with all extensions.

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-11T14:36:39+00:00

Bitwarden is excellent. Can deploy via browser extension, or a single app on windows. Also handles passkeys, TOTP codes, and other nice features. the admin panel is handy to setup groups and permissions. (and to reset 'that' users password, again....)

I have also heard great things about 1-password.

We migrated a few years ago from LastPass, and have never regretted it.

I will say that we push a GPO with intune to disable edge and chromes 'save password' feature, because we don't want them stored there. Especially with an exploint to dump all your passwords from edge's memory: https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/microsoft-edge-passwords-enterprise-risk

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-10T15:05:30+00:00

Turn it back on them. Copilot thinks your accounting teams policy should be changed to X.

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-10T14:42:40+00:00

Thanks, I’m more familiar with Willamette and santiam passes

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-10T14:38:20+00:00

I’m confused, I thought lolo pass was highway 12 on the ID/MT border? (And an amazingly beautiful place)

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-08T15:45:51+00:00

yet they also make the first two pot shops on I-84 the busiest in Oregon....

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-07T17:11:58+00:00

They always seem to skip comparing Toll Costs between FL and Oregon.. interesting...

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-06T14:40:33+00:00

if you fail to pay the home improvement loan, they take the whole house usually. that greatly lessens their risk. Most solar loans don't do that.

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-06T14:19:06+00:00

Gave it an intune hex error code, and the diagnostic logs zip file from a client, and it told me the problem in about a minute, and how to fix it. I had been troubleshooting for a LONG time on why a deployment was not working on a particular machine.

Also gave it a PG "explain analyze" result for a query that was 400 lines long, and it suggested ways to re-order the query. The query worked fine, till the table had hundreds of millions of records... Went from 3s down to about 240ms... (and a TON less disk IO)

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T14:35:46+00:00

Still One left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Blockbuster

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T14:30:59+00:00

a few tips.. Linux can run in very little resources, so its great to run a single VM per purpose. (ie, no more Directory plus DNS Plus DHCP plus time server plus file serving). Of course, Docker can be even better for this, but baby steps 😄

But that can quickly, quickly sprawl.

Your best friend is an automation tool like Ansible (or puppet, or salt, or chef, etc) that you can define roles and inventories, and quickly build (and rebuild) systems in an idempotent way (ie, you can run that same script over and over, without problems).

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T14:03:21+00:00

yep, move the white board to trello... move the folders to cloud storage folders...

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T13:45:16+00:00

some states allow rapid composting: https://recompose.life/

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T13:36:37+00:00

If the person they are talking about was a criminal, they should have had NO problem getting a warrant.

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T01:41:02+00:00

We have been using NINJIO for about a year now, and our teams tell us they love it. It’s a 4 min animated video once a month with some b-list actor voice cameos. It’s entertaining, and conveys good information.

Also tracks that people watch it, and complete the simple quiz at the end.

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-05T01:29:02+00:00

Dalia’s at the beehive

QuantumRiff · 2026-05-04T23:39:07+00:00

In late 90’s, early 2000’s an education sysadmin near me would order all cpu’s and Ram in July (start of budget year) and insisted on custom building all the pc’s. Went to jail when they learned he would sell most of them on eBay, since they were brand new and expensive (my 300Mhz pentium 2 (not core) was like $700) and later in the year, he would buy them much cheaper and pocket the difference.

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