Using a password protected Windows Software Repository

[Paul A]

Hi

Can anyone help advise how you can specify a basic html username/password to be used when installing a package? Reading the doco shows how to use a password protected git repository, but nothing about a standard http repository.

I can get it to work by putting in the u/p in the installer URL like this:

installer: 'http://username:pass...@192.168.19.171/FILE.exe'

but the issue is that on the minion, it downloads the file into a folder which shows the u/p:
C:\salt\var\cache\salt\minion\extrn_files\base\username...@192.168.19.171

i tried to copy the way git was being used by doing this, but without any luck:
user: username
password: password

Thanks

[David Boucha]

can you show us a full sanitized version of your sls file?

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[Paul A]

Hi, here is one that works, but stores the u/p in the cache folder
smp:
latest:
full_name: SMP
installer: 'http://username:pass...@192.168.19.171/program.exe'
install_flags: '-s'
uninstaller: '%LocalAppData%/program/uninstall.exe'
uninstall_flags: '--uninstall'
msiexec: False
locale: en_US
reboot: False

Adding in these lines, and remove the u/p from the URL did not work:

[Loren Gordon]

Since 2015.8, salt has supported rendering in winrepo files. So maybe keep the user/password in pillar?

{%- set user = pillar.get('pillar:path:to:user') %}

{%- set password = pillar.get('pillar:path:to:password') %}

smp:
  latest:
    full_name: SMP
    installer: 'http://{{ user }}:{{ password }}@192.168.19.171/program.exe'

    install_flags: '-s'
    uninstaller: '%LocalAppData%/program/uninstall.exe'
    uninstall_flags: '--uninstall'
    msiexec: False
    locale: en_US
    reboot: False

On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 3:03:27 AM UTC-4, Paul A wrote:

Hi, here is one that works, but stores the u/p in the cache folder
smp:
  latest:
    full_name: SMP

    installer: 'http://username:password@192.168.19.171/program.exe'

[Paul A]

Hi

i tried this, but the folder it created had the username & password in the folder name:

Username...@192.168.19.193

Any other ideas?

[Loren Gordon]

Nope. :(

Not seeing an issue requesting this feature, either. Perhaps submit one?

-Loren

[Paul A]

Hi Loren

If I only knew how to code. My skill set goes as far as bash scripting :-(

[Loren Gordon]

You don't need to know how to code to request the feature. Just complete the form, https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/new.

Of course, you'll probably get it faster if you do code it yourself than if you wait for saltstack or another community member to do it, even counting the time it takes to learn a little python, git, and the structure of salt's source. :)

-Loren

[Paul Azad]

Hi

i know this is an old post - but am not able to use the pillar data in a package install. As soon as i do i get 'Unable to locate package'

minion:

    ----------

    PACKAGE:

        Unable to locate package PACKAGE

this is happening on both new packages i create where i use the pillar data as an install flag, or on the original package from this original post.

I am using salt mater 2016.11.0

Here is the original install package that i am getting the issue with (havent used this package in 12 months - so not sure when it stopped working)

smp:

  latest:

    full_name: SMP

    installer: 'http://{{ pillar['user'] }}:{{ pillar['password'] }}@192.168.9.193/smp.exe'

    install_flags: '-s'

    uninstaller: '%LocalAppData%/slack/Update.exe'

    uninstall_flags: '--uninstall -s'

    msiexec: False

    locale: en_US

    reboot: False

and this is the new package i created

application:

  '1.1.0':

    full_name: 'application'

    {% if grains['cpuarch'] == 'AMD64' %}

    installer: 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/installer.exe?dl=1'

    uninstaller: '"%PROGRAMFILES%\application\uninstall.exe"'

    {% elif grains['cpuarch'] == 'x86' %}

    installer: 'https://www.dropbox.com/installer.exe?dl=1'

    uninstaller: '"%PROGRAMFILES%\application\uninstall.exe"'

    {% endif %}

    install_flags: '{{ pillar['user'] }}:{{ pillar['password'] }}'

    msiexec: False

    locale: en_US

    reboot: False

If i remove the pillar section on either installer (ie change it to just text) and do a pkg.refresh_db and pkg.install - it works. So i know 100% the issue is to do with the pillar section. I have also tried to change the pillar section to this and get the same issue.

{%pillar.get('username') %} {%pillar.get('password') %}

Can anyone help as to the issue?

thanks

[Paul Azad]

Found the issue. Got it working using this:

install_flags: '{{ pillar['username'] }} {{ pillar['password'] }}'