def verify_files(files, user):
    if salt.utils.is_windows():
        return True
    import pwd  # after confirming not running Windows
    try:
        pwnam = pwd.getpwnam(user)
        uid = pwnam[2]
    except KeyError:
        err = ('Failed to prepare the Salt environment for user '
               '{0}. The user is not available.\n').format(user)
        sys.stderr.write(err)
        sys.exit(salt.defaults.exitcodes.EX_NOUSER)

    for fn_ in files:
        dirname = os.path.dirname(fn_)
        try:
            try:
                os.makedirs(dirname)
            except OSError as err:
                if err.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                    raise
            if not os.path.isfile(fn_):
                with salt.utils.fopen(fn_, 'w+') as fp_:
                    fp_.write('')

        except IOError as err:
            if os.path.isfile(dirname):
                msg = 'Failed to create path {0}, is {1} a file?'.format(fn_, dirname)
                raise SaltSystemExit(msg=msg)
            if err.errno != errno.EACCES:
                raise
            msg = 'No permissions to access "{0}", are you running as the correct user?'.format(fn_)
            raise SaltSystemExit(msg=msg)

        except OSError as err:
            msg = 'Failed to create path "{0}" - {1}'.format(fn_, err)
            raise SaltSystemExit(msg=msg)

        stats = os.stat(fn_)
        if uid != stats.st_uid:
            try:
                os.chown(fn_, uid, -1)
            except OSError:
                pass
    return True
Verify that the named files exist and are owned by the named user
dataset/ETHPy150Open saltstack/salt/salt/utils/verify.py/verify_files