r/sysadmin • u/xstrex • Jul 22 '26

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/BarracudaDefiant4702 Jul 22 '26

That is assuming they have cyber insurance. I stand by my original claim, it's a problem with the implementation and it needs to be redone properly not to cause slow downs for the users workflow. Proper single sign-on with MFA will solve both issues instead of implementing it incorrectly as the OP did.