Comment # 12 on bug 1020831 from Duncan Mac-Vicar

I also reproduced this in my own system (Tumbleweed). Installed salt-raet,
restart salt-master:

Mar 20 13:36:42 piscolita.suse.de salt-master[12365]:   File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/utils/__init__.py", line 1288, in fopen
Mar 20 13:36:42 piscolita.suse.de salt-master[12365]:     fhandle = open(*args,
**kwargs)
Mar 20 13:36:42 piscolita.suse.de salt-master[12365]: IOError: [Errno 13]
Permission denied: '/etc/salt/minion.d/transport-raet.conf'

Problem seems to be the following.

The raet module reads /etc/salt/minion.d/transport-raet.conf even on the
master. Unfortunately, that file, as the whole minion files are owned by root.

Why the master reads the minion config is unknown to me. Is there any reason
anyway why the salt-minion files are not owned by group salt with read
permissions, like the master files?