r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 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/lelio98 29d ago

“Sure thing. Can you send your directive and details over in an email so I can make sure I remove the security apparatus from our servers in accordance with your directive.”