White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a system

Re:White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:46PM (#23173260)

For my part, of can’t understand why someone would want to be admin. It seems like a thankless job with a lot of stress and you are often the first in line for blame if something bad happens whether or not it was your fault. But, I am glad that there are people who really like being admin enough to go to a lot of effort to become one.

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Re:White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a... by TheOperator on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:03AM (#23177205)

It causes me way more stress to see bad admins fuck up so badly it causes an impact to other employees yourself included in the department while you sit passively by, than it is to put your hand on the wheel.

The admin panel also has more buttons and buttons are cool.

It's a petty form of power.

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Re:White hat social engineering: How to become an admin of a... by sumfoni on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:22AM (#23176905)

Its often enough easier to control the system directly, which you care for, then to wait for others doing what you can do by yourself.

I'm waiting again for an issue being fixed by some admin from a jira system. I could just do that myself, i could do that better then the other person, but i don't have the permissions.

Sometimes its like 'do i pay someone else to paint my walls vs. do i do it myself'.

I'm a software engineere, it feels naturally to control my environment.

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