Happened on my first day in internship :

Me: Hey, I'm not allowed to install anything, could you install me Sublime Text?
Boss: yeah sure, hold on, I'm granting you admin rights
Me: ...

I find it normal to have some permission.. i was intern at government and got some if the root access

@Jakuho oh okay... He gave me access to everything, servers, sessions, etc
I thought it was a bit too much but if you say so nvm!

That does sound a bit off. Having permission to install apps, etc I agree..

But giving full admin rights to a new guy [no offence intended] does indeed seem a bad idea...

Yes i meant you have shit to do, and right are often needed for it

@rEaL-jAsE as much as I agree, and I really do, there needs to be a safeguard on new guys, at least until sysop thinks they are trustworthy

That's nothing. Where I intern, I perform security audits on production servers and have root access to all of them. Any system I don't have access to directly, I can always access indirectly coz I know where to find the keys. A small mistake on my part while scanning or testing could cost a lot to the company. 🙂

I got cluster admin access. I could(still can) basically provision anything with as much as 64gigs of RAM and > 12CPUs for mining BTC if I wanted to.

I've never been so cautious in my life before

Happened to me too

Me: HACKERMANN