On 2008-10-11 01:11 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Package: base-passwd
> Version: 3.5.19
> Severity: normal
>
> users-and-groups has the following two entries:
> klog
>
>     Used by klogd, the kernel logger.
>
> syslog
>
>     Used by syslog, the general purpose logger.
>
> This information is not correct on Debian. Debian does not use such a
> group or user.

I think Michael is right.  TTBOMK these users never existed in Debian.

Cheers,
       Sven

>From 7ddc24deed3ad713d27688d72c9fc293a3a0ca3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:08:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] users-and-groups: Drop klog and syslog users which never
 existed in Debian (Closes: #501852)

---
 doc/users-and-groups.sgml | 18 ------------------
 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/users-and-groups.sgml b/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
index 5e9559e..914cb42 100644
--- a/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
+++ b/doc/users-and-groups.sgml
@@ -423,24 +423,6 @@
 	  </para>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-	<term>klog</term>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Used by <command>klogd</command>, the kernel logger.
-	  <para>
-	</listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry>
-	<term>syslog</term>
-	<listitem>
-	  <para>
-	    Used by syslog, the general purpose logger.
-	  </para>
-	</listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>
-- 
2.14.1

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