Magnus Eriksson wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>>> You probably added the Cyrus imapd client or cyrus-saslauth stuff.
>>>
>>> cyrus:*:1003:6:cyrus-sasl cyrus user:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
>>
>
>> Perhaps packages that add userids should indicate that in the gecos
>> field:
>>
>> cyrus:*:1003:6:cyrus-sasl cyrus user,pkg-imapd:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
>>
>> or some such. (tech-pkg added to the cc list.)
>
>
> Preferably also with a notice in big fat red letters saying "This is 
> not a guarantee your system has not been compromised, check that you 
> really did install this package and that it should create users!" - 
> but perhaps that is too much to ask for.
>
>
> MAgnus
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>
>
It appears that cyrus-sasl was installed as a dependency when I 
installed KDE. Is there any harm in deleting its user?