The sysadmin was a fool for leaving it default (or not setting a password).

But, messing with the config just gets him/her in a lot more trouble than necessary. Don’t be that guy. Inform the IT department or whoever and say you found a vulnerable device.

You’ll likely be praised, and the guy/girl won’t get into that much trouble.

If you do login to the device, don’t do it from your personal device (phone or laptop). If the sysadmin gets in trouble , and he/she finds in the log the device that logged in and made trouble (and you used a personal device) boy oh boy are you going to have a bad time.

Take it from someone who was a sysadmin many a year ago (and was naive).

Basically yeah. Previous comments get to the point well.

Ask for a raise and look for another job. It you must keep this one, do so for the experience and then just get out.

Try asking on Stack overflow.
Just be prepared for a few harsh comments.

I used it the other day to download something for the fun of it. Didn’t have an issue.

Didn’t like it much though.

@FrodoSwaggins gentoo is the reason that I cried at my desk. Gentoo is also the reason I am a man of patience now. Taught me a ton.

I am not satisfied. Excessive exclamation marks plus a multitude of phone calls (from your PA) are required. Well, that’s what my boss thinks anyways.

Barbell squats are great for backend development...

Kidding.

I use CentOS - but it’s a subjective question really.

What one finds great another might wince at the thought of using.