Administrator privileges

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Computer system access to resources that are unavailable to most users. Administrator privileges permit execution of actions that would otherwise be restricted.

MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Role90%rule-basedr:entity.role.named.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

2 surface forms

possessive: Administrator privileges's
pluralpossessive: Administrator privilegeses'

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