TO replicate issue,

1. Update the paths in master and Saltfile as needed to point to this dir

2. Update the user in roster to a valid user

3. from this directory (in a virtualenv) run:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. (EXPECTED) The following works fine:

   salt-call --local pillar.get password
   

5. put the generated master ssh into your authorized keys

   cat `pwd`/etc/salt/pki/master/ssh/salt-ssh.rsa.pub >>~/.ssh/authorized_keys
   

6. (BROKEN) The following does not work:

   salt-ssh -i local pillar.get password