saltstack/salt — pull request #1228 by jeamland (2012-05-08 04:52:56+00:00)
Title: Make it clearer that a user-switch error can be solved through a configuration change

The current error message when salt is configured (as it is by default) to run as root suggests that salt can _only_ be run as root. Change this to point out that it is simply unable to switch to the target user and thus suggest that the user can be changed via configuration.