diff --git a/cmd/config_import.go b/cmd/config_import.go
index 9a838721..8019bbb8 100644
--- a/cmd/config_import.go
+++ b/cmd/config_import.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package cmd
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"reflect"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
@@ -68,12 +67,7 @@ The path must be for a json or yaml file.`,
 			return err
 		}
 
-		var rawAuther interface{}
-		if filepath.Ext(args[0]) != ".json" {
-			rawAuther = cleanUpInterfaceMap(file.Auther.(map[interface{}]interface{}))
-		} else {
-			rawAuther = file.Auther
-		}
+		var rawAuther = file.Auther
 
 		var auther auth.Auther
 		var autherErr error
diff --git a/cmd/utils.go b/cmd/utils.go
index ee637fa3..a57856e4 100644
--- a/cmd/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/utils.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package cmd
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"log"
 	"os"
@@ -249,33 +248,6 @@ func jsonYamlArg(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 	}
 }
 
-func cleanUpInterfaceMap(in map[interface{}]interface{}) map[string]interface{} {
-	result := make(map[string]interface{})
-	for k, v := range in {
-		result[fmt.Sprintf("%v", k)] = cleanUpMapValue(v)
-	}
-	return result
-}
-
-func cleanUpInterfaceArray(in []interface{}) []interface{} {
-	result := make([]interface{}, len(in))
-	for i, v := range in {
-		result[i] = cleanUpMapValue(v)
-	}
-	return result
-}
-
-func cleanUpMapValue(v interface{}) interface{} {
-	switch v := v.(type) {
-	case []interface{}:
-		return cleanUpInterfaceArray(v)
-	case map[interface{}]interface{}:
-		return cleanUpInterfaceMap(v)
-	default:
-		return v
-	}
-}
-
 // convertCmdStrToCmdArray checks if cmd string is blank (whitespace included)
 // then returns empty string array, else returns the split word array of cmd.
 // This is to ensure the result will never be []string{""}