EvilSysAdmin

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An important subset of the SysAdmin profession. Simply put, normal SysAdmins (I'm not including hobbyists here) are harrassed individuals. EvilSysAdmins do the harrassing. If you read your non-techy fellow employees' emails, you're an EvilSysAdmin. If you have your boss's password memorised, you're an EvilSysAdmin. EvilSysAdmins treat the BOFH not as a cautionary tale for users but as a role model.

PeterTaylor points out that a competent EvilSysAdmin doesn't need to know the boss' password to get into his account.

Did I say password? I meant credit card PIN number - CorkScrew (raising the stakes)

What's a PIN number? (check)

: Doh - CorkScrew

For example, an EvilSysAdmin in my position would note that, when a call is placed whilst my winmodem is trying to dial, the call is actually broadcast on my speakers. He would then figure out how to use this fact to log phone calls. I'm only at step 1 so far, but just give me time...

- CorkScrew (who will be an EvilSysAdmin if he ever stops breaking stuff for long enough to learn)

/me reads your cunning plans and thinks 'amateur'. Along with 'Dude, you're sysadmin, you can read everything on the network already'.

: My sister's phone isn't actually a part of the network :P - CorkScreWireTapping (who is admittedly a complete amateur)

Other Signs of an EvilSysAdmin

Has a sign on his desk "Don't Anthropomorphise the Users". --DR

: I love it! - CorkScrew (in the process of making said sign)

(Hmm, evil sysadmins are always portrayed as "he" arn't they? Counter examples?)

: There's at least one female BOFH in BOFH2k3 -- Senji

CorkScrew proposes a /HowToGuide for the dedicated EvilSysAdmins amongst us.