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From: andy@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Pinhead@Spikes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: Difference between "operator" and "system administrator"?
Message-ID: <2728bad6.1742@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 90 22:38:14 GMT
Organization: Viking Tours & Travels  (SextaSpiker!)
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~In article <680@dynasys.UUCP>, jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
~>The question was:  What
~>is the difference between a system administrator and an operator?

And then Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov> articulates...
~The operator is a tool of the system administrator--if he's lucky
~enough to have one.  Operators are generally responsible for
~day-to-day operations such as backups/restores, adding/removing users,
~etc.
~
~In short, the system administrator is the "brains" and the operator
~is the "braun".

	Or, if you will, the System(s) Administrator formulates
	the policy of which the Operator implements.  Also, the
	admin is usually the person who puts there name on the
	dotted line saying "I am responsible for this machine."

    aBp.
~
~-- 
~Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)
~Martin Marietta Energy Systems
~Workstation Support



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