...s similar to a Windows administrator, however even the powers of a Windows administrator is limited - the ''system32'' folder, for example, cannot be deleted becaus
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...{{w|sudo}} command, used in {{w|Unix}} systems to perform an action as an administrator/super user. This forces Randall to agree. This is a reference to the very p
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...ers to Cueball's thankfulness that he never gave Megan the password to the administrator ('root') account on the computer. It is unclear why this is; he might be wo
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...son: the man that entered the building is a sysadmin (short for {{w|system administrator}}), and he is concerned that his servers are losing uptime, or time spent r
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...rator, so they can see if someone is making repeated attempts at accessing administrator privileges).
...tuation. It was changed in 2022 to "This incident has been reported to the administrator", citing this comic: [https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/6aa320c96
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...but the raw data that it's calculated from. Not only that, but the systems administrator is usually responsible for controlling who has access to the information -
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...e>ps</code> output and be a reminder to other users. This comic depicts an administrator unwilling to reboot a machine that has still running processes from a decea
The phrase "su to the user" refers to the ability of a system administrator — i.e. the superuser, aka root — to switch to another user account (usi
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...day later, the title was changed to one including a capital "Into" by the administrator {{w|User:Mackensen|Mackensen}}. (The debate continued on {{w|User talk:Mack
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...em, users are split into two general groups: regular users, and {{w|system administrator}}s (or admins). Regular users can access and use {{w|Application software|p
...at the {{w|authorization}} mechanisms surrounding most operating systems' administrator accounts. It makes the argument that the user's data is more valuable than
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...g root PWs (passwords) is placed very close to home plate. As a {{w|system administrator}}, the one thing you never, ever do is give anyone the {{w|root password|ro
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...dall's system administrator is upset with him because he tested the system administrator's laptop by throwing it down several flights of steps. The systems admin is
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...tempting to buy an air conditioner with his sysadmin, short for {{w|System administrator}}. The sysadmin is a person in an organization employed to manage the compu
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...he comic suggests that the reason for doing this can be a bored {{w|System administrator|sysadmin}}, who is just reading the messages of the chat users and followin
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...se 500 letters: HAT.''' Lucas requests the "missed connections" page. Eve (administrator) wants to set server's master key to "14835038534". Isabel wants pages abou
...se 500 letters: HAT.''' Lucas requests the "missed connections" page. Eve (administrator) wants to set server's master key to "14835038534". Isabel wants pages abou
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...States)}}, and {{w|Friendship}}. All these pages were semi-protected by an administrator against further attempts for a week after this comic was published.
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...ging of all sensitive commands. A side effect of this, however, is that an administrator may forget to prefix their command with <code>sudo</code>, and re-running i
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...program used to access a computer or service over a network. From a System Administrator's perspective, these are typically the users (though sometimes the administ
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|Impersonating to be a system administrator will let someone fool people and cause a lot of trouble. In particular, it
|Administrator
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...tall software, a second window may pop up requiring the user to type in an administrator password, which will likely startle the user.
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...ps be considered such extraordinary developments as to make the {{w|system administrator}} involved deservedly elegible of a {{w|Nobel Prize}}, or perhaps {{w|List
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