cannot login as root

[cameron]

Having setup my external_auth block in /etc/salt/master with both root and a newly created user, only the newly created user is able to login to the halite web UI. (Yes, I reset the root password once to make sure this was not the issue.) If root is to be disallowed, a note in the docs would be great.

external_auth:
  pam:
    root:
      - .*
      - '@runner'
      - '@wheel'
    halite:
      - .*
      - '@runner'
      - '@wheel'

root@waterfront:~# salt --version
salt 0.17.4
root@waterfront:~/src/halite/halite# pip show halite

---
Name: halite
Version: 0.1.15
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires:

[whiteinge]

Your instincts are right. There is an incompatibility somewhere in Python's PAM ctypes interface and authenticating as root does not work. I have added a note to the eauth and PAM documentation.

[cameron]

thanks :)

[whiteinge]

Thanks for pointing it out. :)