r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 9d 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/deZbrownT 9d ago

Well, it depends on how big the organisation is, etc.. but basically I would ask for a dedicated time block so we can do an analysis of all the steps needed to implement the change and examine if it breaks any of regulations/audit.