[fragmede]

If, in the year 2025, you are still using a shared account called "root" (password: "password"), and it's not a hardware switch or something (and even they support user accounts these days), I'm sorry, but you need to do better. If you're the vendor, you need to do better, if you're the client, you need to make it an issue with the vendor and tell them they need to do better. I know, it's easy for me to say from the safety of my armchair at 127.0.0.1. I've got some friends in IT doing support that have some truly horrifying stories. But holy shit why does some stuff suck so fucking much still. Sorry, I'm not mad at you or calling you names, it's the state of the industry. If there were more pushback on broken busted ass shit where this would be a problem, I could sleep better at night, knowing that there's somebody else that isn't being tortured.

[theshrike79]

It’s 2025. I don’t even have the login password to any server, they’re not unicorns, they’re cattle.

If something is wrong with a server, we terminate it and spin up a new one. No need for anyone to log in.

In very rare cases it might be relevant to log in to a running server, but I haven’t done that in years.