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I run a homelab. I name my servers after astronomical phenomena. It runs beautifully for 2 years. But at the same time, I committed my Authelia user database to git. Not to a private repo with care...

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I run a homelab. I name my servers after astronomical phenomena. It runs beautifully for 2 years. But at the same time, I committed my Authelia user database to git. Not to a private repo with careful access controls. Just — to git. With a git add . and a push to main, the way a bootcamp student commits a .env file on their first Django tutorial. Here's the thing about .gitignore: it works great when you're in the directory that has it. The root .gitignore said *.sqlite3. The root .gitignore was not consulted when I cd'd into /infra and typed git add . like a person who has never made a mistake before. db.sqlite3: committed. users_database.yml, which contains every TOTP secret for every service I care about: committed. notifications.txt, a complete log of every auth event with timestamps: also committed, as a bonus. The git log is very informative. "add: 2fa formalized" it says, cheerfully, 311296 bytes of binary database and all. I have 2FA. It is now in version control. What actually

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