...example, cannot be deleted because it is a critical part of the operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like del
...laint, because Cueball has all the rights. For anyone versed in installing system software with the <code>make</code> command, this exchange is intensely rem
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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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...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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...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
...ystems, although it is probably not true in a shared-server setup, where a system compromise could lead to the exposure of many users' data.
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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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...he sysadmin is a person in an organization employed to manage the computer system or network, a role that requires technical skills and intelligence. The sug
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...case, users of the old chat room create VMs only to have the old operating system installed which included the utility program. They use this setup only to a
...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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...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
...normal user, in this case the commands may install a local (as opposed to system-wide) version depending on local conditions. For instance, npm will install
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...these are typically the users (though sometimes the administrators) of the system.
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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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...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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