[Pkg-salt-team] Bug#934195: salt-ssh: Failed to prepare the Salt environment for user salt. The user is not available.

[Ross Vandegrift]

Package: salt-ssh
Version: 2018.3.4+dfsg1-6
Severity: normal

Under stretch, I used salt-ssh without salt-master to manage a handful
of hosts.  After upgrading to buster, I ran into this error:

$ sudo salt-ssh ravenhurst --verbose -l debug test.ping
[DEBUG   ] Missing configuration file: /etc/salt/master
[DEBUG   ] Using cached minion ID from /etc/salt/minion_id: vanvanmojo
Failed to prepare the Salt environment for user salt. The user is not available.

The salt user is created by salt-master (though I ran into #930178 the
first time I tried to install).  Once I got salt-master installed, the
user existed and salt-ssh could work again.

Should salt-ssh depend on salt-master now?

Ross

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (40, 'unstable'), (30, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages salt-ssh depends on:
ii  python3      3.7.3-1
ii  salt-common  2018.3.4+dfsg1-6

salt-ssh recommends no packages.

salt-ssh suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/salt/roster changed [not included]

-- no debconf information