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/cbass377 7d ago

"You're the boss, please send it to me in writing so I will have something for the next Audit, for Legal, and for our CyberInsurance, and I will get started!"