A person responsible for managing a network or the computers within a department or company. An administrator has full access to the hardware and software. Users are generally the administrators of their own computers, because fresh out of the box, whoever sets up the machine can set their own administrator privileges. See
administration.
If the machines are company owned, users are given fewer privileges. For example, they cannot change certain permissions or internal files. See
root level,
privilege and
access rights.
There Are Different Kinds of Administrators
In an organization's IT department, technicians often have administrator titles. See
data administrator,
database administrator,
network administrator and
system administrator.