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Help, my IT team has no admin access to their own systems

Sam not the Viking Silver badge
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Top Dog

At one company I worked for, we had to use a production system run/supervised by a sister company who seemed to want to prove their superiority. (The system was hopelessly out of date but that's another story). The supervisor would visit, usually to sort out a 'technical glitch' that only he could resolve. It was a clear scam to get a day out at our expense. When we realised that this was going on, we quickly 'discovered' his login details and in doing so obtained much wider access than we anticipated..... We used this access carefully to maintain our rich data source; as well as prevent the 'glitches' recurring.

His password was 'Top Dog' and he used it for everything. He must have puzzled the persistent canine references in the surrounding chatter.

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