(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #48) > It's really salt which has no support for a unix socket. the MySQLdb.connect > interface supports unix sockets, and according to the MySQLdb documentation, > using the socket is even the default and preferred. > > So we need to add support for a unix socket in salt at least for the > returner module. Thorsten, this sounds like a new bug/feature request to me, are you OK in closing this report?