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I’m logged into one of my Ubuntu VPS’s as a user account with sudo access and I go to run sudo mysql. It rejects the password as pasted from my password manager. Panic sets it as I was just in the db 20 minutes ago. I try running as another user I know to be valid using su. Password rejected. I’m sweating bullets now. I only log in using ssh pubkey. Password login disabled. Root login disabled. Has someone hacked my server while I was logged in? Has someone hacked my dev machine and key logged my passwords? My instinct is to disable and rebuild the server but I decide to ask the free web console version of an AI what to do first despite my hitherto reluctance to use AI generally. I work alone so no one here to ask and thinking my server was in the hands of a malicious actor I didn’t have time to ask for help here on reddit. As I follow its troubleshooting steps I start to calm down as it looks less and less like a server hack and then I remember: I just created a backup of my password manager file. Or did I? No. I had renamed the current file and pasted in an older password database file with all incorrect passwords. I reverse the procedure and everything is fine. I’m competent at Linux server administration but concede I didn’t know most of the steps to try and detect infiltration. If I hadn’t asked the AI model I’d be rebuilding a perfectly good server right now. This story is not intended to shill AI as obviously the true underlying moral of it is don’t panic and get better at Linux. Try and be rational in any situation where you think something catastrophic has happened. It might not be as bad as you think. submitted by /u/dougception [link] [comments]

With Closte going completely dark recently – no website, dashboard, client panel, and zero word from support – I’ve been scrambling to help move a bunch of client sites away from them. If you still have production sites sitting over there, please do yourself a favor and double-check that you have local, off-site backups saved right now. My biggest worry is the end of the month coming up. If the company is running on autopilot and ignores their upstream infrastructure bills, those servers are going to get shut off at the end of the billing cycle. Once an upstream host wipes those disks, your website would be gone too. So… Do yourself a favor, create a local/offsite backup right away! Are you guys already migrating your stuff off, or are you holding out hope they pop back online? submitted by /u/Redictive [link] [comments]

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I am beyond furious right now. I created 2 OVH accounts a while back. I literally NEVER used them. No resources added, no projects created, nothing. Zero usage. I decided to just close them to keep things clean, but guess what? You CANNOT close your account on OVH. Apparently, OVH automatically assigned random services/projects to my unused accounts (like vRacks and Public Cloud projects) without notifying me, and now their broken system blocks account deletion because of “active services.” I’ve been stuck in support ticket hell for OVER TWO WEEKS trying to get these accounts wiped under GDPR. Here is the circus I’ve been dealing with: Canceling a basic service takes 7 DAYS?? Support told me a vRack service had to be canceled first and that it takes a full week just to delete. What year is this?! Their UI is completely broken. The GDPR deletion page threw errors, and the system kept telling me to manual-delete things that I couldn’t even delete through their manager interface. Their support agents give conflicting advice. One tells me to click links to delete Public Cloud projects, another says they’ll delete it manually, another tells me to wait a couple of weeks for a “specialized team” to step in. THE ULTIMATE JOKE: Today I finally get an automated message saying: “Unfortunately, despite our efforts, we are unable to delete your account at this time. It looks like some actions are still in progress and blocking its deletion…” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The actual owners and developers of the platform cannot delete an unused account from their OWN system due to “technical issues”?! They literally built the system and claim they are powerless to delete user data! They clearly don’t give a damn about GDPR or basic customer support. I have deleted every possible service, settled $0 invoices, answered every ticket, and I am still stuck in a loop of copy-pasted support templates and automated rejection emails. Has anyone actually managed to force OVH to close an account, or do I need to go straight to a Data Protection Authority (DPA) complaint at this point? submitted by /u/_WhiteAngel_ [link] [comments]

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