in many environments such user account is federated (kerberos/AD/NIS/whatever), so it can be managed more easily than a bunch of roots. Plus there's some accountability as to who did what.Creating a non-root user account, possibly with admin rights (all
possible from within Anaconda) would seem like a safer option for
accasional/emergency password based access to such machines over SSH.
I don't see, how this would any safer than directly using "root".