Why is the GECOS field for the saslauth user surrounded in double quotes?

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Issue

We noticed that the GECOS field for the saslauth user is escaped with double-quotes:

$ grep sasl /etc/passwd
saslauth:x:998:76:"Saslauthd user":/run/saslauthd:/sbin/nologin

Why is that the case?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7

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