Klaus Kämpf 14ef6d2b51 Accepting request 430691 from systemsmanagement:saltstack:testing
- splitting out the susemanager integration plugins into their own
  subpackages. ATM this only contains the zypp plugin to tell
  susemanager about manually installed packages.

- Unit and integration tests fixes for 2016.3.2
  Add:
  * 0018-Unit-tests-fixes-for-2016.3.2.patch
  * 0019-Fix-snapper_test-for-python26.patch
  * 0020-Integration-tests-fixes-for-2016.3.2.patch

- Prevent pkg.install failure for expired keys (bsc#996455)
  Add:
  * 0017-Check-for-single-quote-before-splitting-on-single-qu.patch

- Required D-Bus and generating machine ID where it is missing

- Fix sphinx crashes when documentation is being generated
  Add script for documentation update.
  Add:
  * 0016-Improve-Mock-to-be-flexible-and-able-to-mock-methods.patch
  * update-documentation.sh

- Fix pkg.installed refresh repo failure (bsc#993549)
  Fix salt.states.pkgrepo.management no change failure (bsc#990440)
  Add:
  * 0014-Add-ignore_repo_failure-option-to-suppress-zypper-s-.patch
  * 0015-Remove-zypper-s-raise-exception-if-mod_repo-has-no-a.patch

- Deprecate status.uptime one version later
  Add:

OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/430691
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/systemsmanagement:saltstack/salt?expand=0&rev=77
2016-09-28 07:49:13 +00:00

Salt-master as non-root user
============================

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

Why an extra user
=================

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
=========================

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
====

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:
http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/configuration/nonroot.html
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