diff --git a/sat/core/sat_main.py b/sat/core/sat_main.py
index 33571832..ac96d958 100644
--- a/sat/core/sat_main.py
+++ b/sat/core/sat_main.py
@@ -939,6 +939,10 @@ class SAT(service.Service):
             return False
         return self.profiles[profile].isConnected()
 
+    def isAdmin(self, client: xmpp.SatXMPPEntity) -> bool:
+        """Tells if a client is an administrator with extra privileges"""
+        return client.profile in self.memory.admins
+
     ## Encryption ##
 
     def registerEncryptionPlugin(self, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/sat/core/xmpp.py b/sat/core/xmpp.py
index da5c4e43..94dee804 100644
--- a/sat/core/xmpp.py
+++ b/sat/core/xmpp.py
@@ -600,6 +600,11 @@ class SatXMPPEntity(core_types.SatXMPPEntity):
             post_xml_treatments.callback(data)
         return data
 
+    @property
+    def is_admin(self) -> bool:
+        """True if a client is an administrator with extra privileges"""
+        return self.host_app.memory.isAdmin(self.profile)
+
     def addPostXmlCallbacks(self, post_xml_treatments):
         """Used to add class level callbacks at the end of the workflow
 
@@ -1009,6 +1014,10 @@ class SatXMPPComponent(SatXMPPEntity, component.Component):
         # FIXME: not the best way to get server jid, maybe use config option?
         return jid.JID(self.jid.host.split(".", 1)[-1])
 
+    @property
+    def is_admin(self) -> bool:
+        return False
+
     def _buildDependencies(self, current, plugins, required=True):
         """build recursively dependencies needed for a plugin
 
diff --git a/sat/memory/memory.py b/sat/memory/memory.py
index afe5ff16..9bc09195 100644
--- a/sat/memory/memory.py
+++ b/sat/memory/memory.py
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ class Memory:
         self.disco = Discovery(host)
         self.config = tools_config.parseMainConf(log_filenames=True)
         self._cache_path = Path(self.getConfig("", "local_dir"), C.CACHE_DIR)
+        self.admins = self.getConfig("", "admins_list", [])
+        self.admin_jids = set()
+
 
     async def initialise(self):
         self.storage = Storage()
@@ -251,6 +254,21 @@ class Memory:
         self.memory_data = PersistentDict("memory")
         await self.memory_data.load()
         await self.disco.load()
+        for admin in self.admins:
+            try:
+                admin_jid_s = await self.asyncGetParamA(
+                    "JabberID", "Connection", profile_key=admin
+                )
+            except Exception as e:
+                log.warning(f"Can't retrieve jid of admin {admin!r}: {e}")
+            else:
+                if admin_jid_s is not None:
+                    try:
+                        admin_jid = jid.JID(admin_jid_s).userhostJID()
+                    except RuntimeError:
+                        log.warning(f"Invalid JID for admin {admin}: {admin_jid_s}")
+                    else:
+                        self.admin_jids.add(admin_jid)
 
 
     ## Configuration ##
@@ -1849,3 +1867,16 @@ class Memory:
             log.debug("No presence information for {}".format(entity_jid))
             return False
         return presence_data.show != C.PRESENCE_UNAVAILABLE
+
+    def isAdmin(self, profile: str) -> bool:
+        """Tell if given profile has administrator privileges"""
+        return profile in self.admins
+
+    def isAdminJID(self, entity: jid.JID) -> bool:
+        """Tells if an entity jid correspond to an admin one
+
+        It is sometime not possible to use the profile alone to check if an entity is an
+        admin (e.g. a request managed by a component). In this case we check if the JID
+        correspond to an admin profile
+        """
+        return entity.userhostJID() in self.admin_jids