Sorry to bump this, but apparently it may be a case of highly specialized person unwilling to relinquish control in fear that lesser mortals will screw it up.
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/em...lockout_1.html
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. Rather than a case of a rogue administrator attempting to cause damage to the network by locking out other administrators, this may be a case of an overprotective admin who believed he was protecting the network – and by extension, the city – from other administrators whom he considered inferior, and perhaps even dangerous
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Link originally found on HARD OcP
There is a fine line in IT where an Admin is as much a social engineer as much as a network/computer engineer.