Failing in salt-api - salt-stack

Question

Team,
I'm facing difficulties setting up salt-api.
I'm in a setup ubuntu 16 and CherryPy 3.5. Which is a open bug https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/37783 .
I managed to downgrade to CherryPy 3.2.3.
rest_cherrypy:
port: 8000
disable_ssl: True
external_auth: pam:
saltuser:
- .*
Upon salt-api and salt-master restart
curl -k http://localhost:8000
{"clients": ["local", "local_async",
> "local_batch", "local_subset", "runner", "runner_async", "ssh",
> "wheel", "wheel_async"], "return": "Welcome"}
While login or submitting a job I get 401 Unauthorized .
curl -sSk http://localhost:8000/login -H 'Accept: application/x-yaml' -d username=saltuser -d password=passwd -d eauth=pam
curl -vki http://localhost:8000 -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -d client=local -d tgt='stg-ubuntu102*' -d fun='cmd.run' -d "kwarg": {"cmd": "touch /tmp/mannoj"}
Can someone please guide me here?

Answer 1

In order to execute commands through the Salt API you need either to login while executing the command or passing X-Auth-Token. So what you need to do is to use the token that was generated by executing the login command
First make sure that you have a system user before executing the following
curl -sSk http://localhost:8000/login -H 'Accept: application/x-yaml' -d username=saltuser -d password=passwd -d eauth=pam
In your next request:
curl -vki http://localhost:8000 -H "Accept: application/x-yaml" -H "X-Auth-Token: TOKEN_GOES_HERE" -d client=local -d tgt='stg-ubuntu102*' -d fun='cmd.run' -d "kwarg": {"cmd": "touch /tmp/mannoj"}
Note that I have added -H "X-Auth-Token: TOKEN_GOES_HERE"
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