#sysadmin

[nixcraft]

A boy can dream, can't he?

[proxmox-official]

AUR has been hit with malware

Per the CachyOS subreddit:

"As the title states, the Arch AUR has been hit by a huge malware infection campaign over the last couple of days. There's an earlier post referring to alvr. That's not the only package it's hundreds of them, many of them Aur packages average people would install like apple-music-desktop.

I don't have the full details of the scope of the malware campaign. I know it's a credential stealer so it steals ssh keys and browser login info and apparently has rootkit potential.

This was widespread and targeted orphaned packages. Aur for some reason allows other people to take over existing projects.

The bottom line is if you used the aur over the last couple of days you may have been infected and the problem with taking over orphaned packages I believe remains. I personally would not use the Aur for the foreseeable future, and ideally not at all. It's a security risk."

There is a script that you can run on your machine to detect if you have a package that is known to have been infected which you can view here. I have also linked the subreddit post here.

Just download it, make it executable and run the script with sudo and let it run, it will tell you what it found once it's complete.

⚠️ Also obligatory don't blindly trust random scripts on the Internet disclaimer ⚠️

Pls reblog to signal boost!!

[technomancerb3]

like for Juniper ACX5048

ignore for 1 year of unreliable internet

[bvdbasch]

Bob Ross but make it sysadmin ✨

[nix-official]

So last week was my finals week, and the IT department in their infinie wisdom thought it'd be a good idea to update the computers just before! Also, turns out their script deletes the software completely before installing the new version! :D

long story short, we were missing nodejs in the JS exam, and gdb in another one :DDD

and still the only thing I could think of is just using Nix (or honestly any package manager I'm pretty sure) would have avoided that

[track-maniac]

what the fuck is happening

[allie-leth]

I just turned off the ethernet interface of a box I was ssh'd into. The sheer idiocy of what I had just done did not hit me until after I hit enter. This box is headless. The interface did not come back up after a hard restart. I am the biggest idiot.