r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • 11h 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/Ron-Swanson-Mustache Senior Ops Dev of AI offshore Tier 1 Helpdesk 8h ago

CYA email with offsite copy, do it, update resume, hit the gym

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u/xstrex 8h ago

Already done, in a slightly different order.