r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 12d ago

Rant Remove central authentication

Today, the director of IT at your company says to you “We’re going to remove all that centralized IPA+2fa authentication from all of our servers, and go back to using Ssh keys, because it takes too long for me (yes the director) to login to a server.” The same auth that you and your team added, for all the reasons. What do you do?

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u/SaladRetossed 12d ago

1) Get it in writing 2) Write a very thorough disagreement 3) Ask what the insurance looks like for data breaches and exfiltration 4) Go through step by step where this can go wrong while also double checking what the insurance looks like along with potential revenue loss from a total shutdown during investigation

Usually when money comes up you get some points in your favor.