admin

2 definitions found

admin - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  system administration
  admin
  sysadmin
  system administrator
  
     <job> Activities performed by a system administrator (or
     "admin", "sysadmin", "site admin") such as monitoring security
     configuration, managing allocation of user names and
     passwords, monitoring disk space and other resource use,
     performing backups, and setting up new hardware and
     software.
  
     system administrators often also help users, though in a large
     organisation this may be a separate job.
  
     Compare postmaster, sysop, system management, systems programmer
     .
  
     [Other tasks?]
  
     (1999-05-02)
  

admin - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  admin
   /ad.min'/, n.
  
     Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to
     refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common
     constructions on this include sysadmin and site admin (emphasizing
  the
     administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or
     newsadmin (focusing specifically on news). Compare postmaster,
     sysop, system mangler.