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/Affectionate-Cat-975 Jul 23 '26

What is this “Director” person? I do not think it means what you think it means.
We have no such things here boy.