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Role that grants users and groups complete control over all permissions,= configurations, apps, and administrative options
The term "System Administrator" has two related meanings: the first is t= echnical, the second informal. The technical sense of "System Administrator= " refers to the name of a permissions role granted to an individual user or= group. Being granted this role means being given control of every Confluen= ce and app administration and configuration option available. In effe= ct, this role creates a Confluence "superuser" who faces no limitation to w= hat she can access.
The second use of "System Administrator" is more colloquial. It simply r= efers to a user that has, or is a member of a group that has, the above-men= tioned permissions role. For example, we might say in our documentation tha= t "only System Administrators can install Brikit." Here we are using this t= erm informally to refer to a user with the role of System Administrator.
There are two important further considerations:
Confluence Ad= ministrator is another permissions role (and colloquialism) in Confluen= ce. Like System Administrator, it can be applied to users or groups. The Co= nfluence Administrator does not have full access to the complete set of adm= inistrative and configuration options. It is a more limited role than Syste= m Administrator.
There is an out-of-the-box Confluence group called confluence-ad= ministrators with the System Administrator role assigned to i= t. This group is, in fact, a set of superusers, and there= fore should not be referred to as "Confluence Administrators," despite the = group's name. For accuracy, any individual user in this group should be cal= led a "System Administrator." (By contrast, you may create a different grou= p, say, technical-librarians, that has the Confluence Administrato= r role and whose members could be called, accurately-speaking, "Confluence = Administrators.")