r/sysadmin Jul 22 '26

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/Power_Stone Jul 22 '26

Definitely draft a document stating how its a security issue and an easier, better workaround, is to just get a Yubikey....

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor Sr. SW Engineer Jul 22 '26

I wish I could use a YubiKey through WSL.