Lots of User Accounts Appeared?

Right having a dabble with Mac OSX Lion Server.
I have a mac mini set up as a server which I access remotely via a VPN.
I accessed it yesterday remotelty and noticed that I suddenly have 85 user accounts instead of the 3 I have set up? They have names like Dovecot Administration, CVMS, Daemon etc. Strange thing is when I access the server directly they don't show.
Any advice on to what has happend would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tony

Sorry, re-reading my last post, I see it should say... "and you can't log in to them".
I'm not sure why they whould show up when you access remotely. Maybe a filtering problem? These accounts really aren't meant to be presented to the user.
No, it's not a problem. They've always been there, doing their tasks in the background.

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