# Pour some salt on me
Messing with salt-stack
## Setup salt-master on ubuntu
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sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:saltstack/salt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install salt-master
sudo apt-get -y install salt-minion
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### salt-master ports
The salt-master must make the following ports available to it\'s
salt-minions:
- 4505
- 4506
salt-minions do not need any special firewall rules
## Setup salt-minion on ubuntu
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MASTER=master.foxhop.net # put your master here
sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:saltstack/salt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install salt-minion
sudo sed -i "s/#master: salt/#master: salt\nmaster: $MASTER/" /etc/salt/minion
sudo service salt-minion restart
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or this
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wget --no-check-certificate -O - http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh && echo "master: master.foxhop.net" >> /etc/salt/minion.d/foxhop.conf && echo "append_domain: foxhop.net" >> /etc/salt/minion.d/foxhop.conf;
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### minion log
/var/log/salt/minion
## Salt keys
keys and ids
### List the accepted and unaccepted Salt keys
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salt-key -L
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### Accept a minion key
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salt-key -a
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### Accept all unaccepted minion keys
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salt-key -A
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**Source:** [https://foxhop.net/f3bd8400-2f95-11f1-980e-e86a64d24d78/pour-some-salt-on-me](https://foxhop.net/f3bd8400-2f95-11f1-980e-e86a64d24d78/pour-some-salt-on-me)
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