Re: new to Debian-Sid / Server Admin. KDE-plasma creates user logon I cannot delete.

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:22:43 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.qt-kde,gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<4034636.3ZeAukHxDK@soren-desktop>

On Friday, February 13, 2026 3:11:41 PM Mountain Standard Time Joshua 
McGoldrick wrote:
> Hello Team Debian.
> I am the System Admin of a small network in which we use a modified version
> of Sid (Sky1) on a CiX 8180 RADXA Orion O6. By default Sky1 uses GNOME but
> I prefer the KDE Plasma Enviroment. However during the course of changing
> Desktop Enviroments, i made a typo and instead of installing the
> "kde-desktop" package i added "plasma-desktop" and once installed this
> package created a login "plasma-setup" with a password unknown to me. I
> have tried deluser and userdel, i have tried to change passwd, but neither
> of these worked. its user 1100 and its home directory /run/plasma-setup
> doesnt appear to exist. i am slightly concerned that this could create a
> backdoor into my system which contains sensitive ip information. I am
> hoping that your team might be able to help me resolve this issue.
> thank you for your time and attention to this matter.
> 
> Joshua McGoldrick
> PSYAI LLC

1.  debian-project is not an end-user support list.  You are much better off 
trying [email protected].

2.  Debian is not usually the correct place to ask for support for downstream 
derivatives.  My system, which has plasma-desktop installed, does not have a 
plasma-setup user.  Are you sure this is something caused by a Debian package 
and not a customization made by Sky1?

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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