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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Our enterprise has all of that automated, who's searching for names manually in any business of nontrivial size....?

This can, and should, be scripted.

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly, most services can be tied into a central authentication system/SSO and can automatically be disabled upon disabling an SSO user.