I've been working as the primary network/sys admin at this company for about 4 months now. I always noticed I never could find the admin password for the big color printer/copier up front, which requires access codes to print to. I never thought much of getting admin access to it, since I had access codes to set people up with.
Well, come this morning I get tons of people calling me saying they can't print to the color printer. I checkout the web UI and see all the jobs are showing access denied. I try to print from my machine, same thing, access denied.
So I decide it's time I get admin access to this thing. I login as the supervisor (account that can reset admin passes). I see the admin username: the owner of the company's son. Apparently he is the "admin" of this machine. Why? I have no clue. He wants to feel powerful? Who knows. He job isn't tech-related at all though.
I go to my boss and tell her none of the access codes are working.
It turns out this guy and our HR lady got in a fight yesterday. And what does he do when he got all pissed off? Apparently he went in and deleted a bunch of access codes from the printer. That'll fix her, right?
I was very tempted to use the supervisor account and reset his password and give myself admin access to the printer, seeing as how he apparently isn't mature enough to have it himself... but seeing as how he's the owner's son, I decided that wasn't the best course of action. Instead, my boss emailed him telling him he needs to put the codes back.
Anyways... just thought I'd share.
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