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