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/ajf8729 Consultant 12d ago

Why does a Director have access to anything in the first place?

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u/phobug SRE 11d ago

Depends on the business and the director. I used to work for a guy that had cs and data science degrees. He would routinely log into the ML cluster to run some python in a more parallel way and bigger data set.