> No, I'm not giving you root on all the servers, tell me what you want to do. You just want to copy a file? You don't need root for that.
I'm a developer, so I'm very biased.
My interactions with system administrators were more along the lines of "I can't give you access to this system, you have to [come to my desk / hop on a zoom call] and tell me what to type into the shell." and me "Please type tail dash f, no, not slash, dash, the horizontal line thing" and a whole lot of back and forth like this, after which I thank them politely and they feel very accomplished while I'm left guessing why that entire department is necessary...
I'm a developer, so I'm very biased.
My interactions with system administrators were more along the lines of "I can't give you access to this system, you have to [come to my desk / hop on a zoom call] and tell me what to type into the shell." and me "Please type tail dash f, no, not slash, dash, the horizontal line thing" and a whole lot of back and forth like this, after which I thank them politely and they feel very accomplished while I'm left guessing why that entire department is necessary...