Feb 28, 2024 19:00:00

Netizens lament that they are having trouble accessing the server that was managed by their late father.

A message was posted on the online bulletin board Reddit saying that they were having trouble accessing the server that was managed by their late father. We have received many requests for help from posters who say they know the password but cannot access anything else.

The person who sent the message in question was Reddit user AkaneR66 . He posted that the two servers managed by his father, who had suddenly passed away, had stopped working, making it impossible to use the email service that his family also uses, and asked for advice on how to restore it.

According to AkaneR66, his father managed two servers called ``Ranma'' and ``Akane,'' one of which was used as a mail server and the other as a web server. Of these, the mail server went down, and although it was restarted, it has not been completely restored.

AkaneR66 posted several questions, including how to recover the server, assuming that the password could probably be found.

If someone who was deeply involved in a project, such as server maintenance or product development, disappears, it will have a big impact on the entire team. This is commonly referred to as the ``

bus coefficient ,'' and the loss if a key person suddenly disappears due to being ``hit by a bus,'' etc., is sometimes taken into account when proceeding with a project. In the case of Mr. AkaneR66, the entire family can no longer use email because his father, a key person, has passed away, so the bus coefficient in this case can be considered as '1 person'.

In AkaneR66's case, this loss is likely to be compensated for by the goodwill of net users. Ranma and Akane were in an office building on the other side of town, and their father was accessing them remotely. Mr. AkaneR66 didn't know how to do it and would have had to travel hours to the site without a car, but a user who lives nearby decided to help him.

Also, software engineers and system administrators have offered to cooperate in response to Mr. AkaneR66's voice that he does not know how to recover even if he can log in to the server. AkaneR66 said, ``Thank you for your comments and messages,'' and promised to continue reporting the situation.