Answers: <p>A <a href="https://docs.chef.io/server_orgs.html#admins" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chef admin</a> can create, modify and delete other users and clients. Basically an admin can manage access to Chef.</p>
  
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Answers: 2017-07-10T18:58:02.483Z
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Body: <p>I've read over the chef docs for a while now and I can't seem to find anything that says what an admin does in chef.  I can <a href="https://docs.chef.io/server_users.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">do all sorts of things with making people admins</a>, but there's no indication of what this does for me.  Is there a clear answer somewhere?</p>
  
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Title: What is special about the admin in chef?
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ThreadText: # What is special about the admin in chef?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-07-10)
  
  I've read over the chef docs for a while now and I can't seem to find anything that says what an admin does in chef. I can [do all sorts of things with making people admins](https://docs.chef.io/server_users.html), but there's no indication of what this does for me. Is there a clear answer somewhere?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-07-10. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  A [Chef admin](https://docs.chef.io/server_orgs.html#admins) can create, modify and delete other users and clients. Basically an admin can manage access to Chef.
  
  
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