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Fixes support for syslog when salt is running as non-root user#68801

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Fixes support for syslog when salt is running as non-root user#68801
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What does this PR do?

Same as #62263

The documented way to write to syslog is to use the config: log_file: file:///dev/log.

This breaks in some circumstances when running as non-root, for example, when log_level: info is set. In that case, /dev/log is not "writeable", so the code falls back to writing to /root/.salt/master.log, which is definitely not writeable by the non-root user salt is configured to run as.

This is an improved version of the original PR #62263. This PR uses an improved syslog path parser to manage all variant of syslog path supported by salt (file and tcp / udp connection). This function is mainly based on the salt source code. (see salt._logging.impl#setup_logfile_handler)

This version should work on any os.

What issues does this PR fix or reference?

Likely also fixes: #61286

Previous Behavior

Salt will try and write logs to /root/.salt/master.log, which is inaccessible when running as non-root, which means salt-master crashes out with a permissions error.

New Behavior

salt-master starts correctly.

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[NOTICE] Bug fixes or features added to Salt require tests.

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@shadow38 shadow38 requested a review from a team as a code owner March 13, 2026 15:10
@dwoz dwoz added the test:full Run the full test suite label Mar 18, 2026
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dwoz commented Mar 18, 2026

@shadow38 I think this PR should be made against 3006.x

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shadow38 commented Apr 3, 2026

Closing this PR as requested by @dwoz.
Reopening with target branch 3006.x instead of master: #68890

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[BUG] salt-syndic fail to properly switch to different user with log file:///dev/log

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