Should the root account be disabled in Fedora 18? | Linux Today

Should the root account be disabled in Fedora 18?

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Sep 20, 2012

But come Fedora 18, the next stable release, the root account will be disabled by default. It is one of the many new features of Anaconda, the Fedora system installation program. That at least is what you see in the just released Fedora 18 Alpha.

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