Salt-master as non-root user

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With this version of salt the salt-master will run as salt user.

Why an extra user

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While the current setup runs the master as root user, this is considered a security issue

and not in line with the other configuration management tools (eg. puppet) which runs as a

dedicated user.

How can I undo the change

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If you would like to make the change before you can do the following steps manually:

1. change the user parameter in the master configuration

user: root

2. update the file permissions:

as root: chown -R root /etc/salt /var/cache/salt /var/log/salt /var/run/salt

3. restart the salt-master daemon:

as root: rcsalt-master restart or systemctl restart salt-master

NOTE

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Running the salt-master daemon as a root user is considers by some a security risk, but

running as root, enables the pam external auth system, as this system needs root access to check authentication.

For more information:

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/configuration/nonroot.html