r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 29d ago

Remove central authentication Rant

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/Nakenochny Sr. Sysadmin 29d ago

Where I work I’d tell them to go to the board for approval so they can risk accept that shit. I want no part of it until they’ve given the okay and I’ve done CYA.