Chapter 36. Firing System Administrators

This chapter is about how to remove fellow SAs from your site because they’ve been terminated. Our wish is that you never need to use the information in this chapter. But the reality is that everyone will need to use this information someday. You may not be a manager saddled with the responsibility of deciding to terminate someone, but you may be the SA who must deal with the consequences.

This chapter is not about why someone should be fired. We can’t help you there. It is instead about the technical tasks that must be performed when it happens. In fact, you might say that this chapter begins after the management decision has been made to fire someone and you must remove the person’s access from the network.