diff --git a/user b/user
index 21c0d0d0d9f..88b20b89b48 100755
--- a/user
+++ b/user
@@ -220,7 +220,9 @@ class User(object):
             self.ssh_file = module.params['ssh_key_file']
         else:
             self.ssh_file = os.path.join('.ssh', 'id_%s' % self.ssh_type)
-        self.syslogging = True
+
+        # select whether we dump additional debug info through syslog
+        self.syslogging = False
 
     def execute_command(self,cmd):
         if self.syslogging: