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Investigate mail auth for Salt 3006.17

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked Salt minimum-auth-version documentation and the current /etc/salt/master.d/hold-back.conf override. Compare the mail host's Salt 2018 series with the salt-master at 3006.17, then determine and record the supported authentication configuration or upgrade path that removes the temporary workaround.

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Description

infra mail

From #618(ee):

The salt-master upgrading to 3006.17 via unattended upgrades brought the new default minimum authentication setting

Remediation:

I set a more permissive authentication mechanism temporarily on the salt-master to override the new default (this is only necessary currently for the mail host which runs salt 2018 series.

ee@salt:~$ sudo cat /etc/salt/master.d/hold-back.conf
minimum_auth_version: 0
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