Salt-api and restcherrypy permission denied error

Question

I am trying to set up a new salt master and want to use salt-api.

I am following the guide here

https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/ref/netapi/all/salt.netapi.rest_cherrypy.html#a-rest-api-for-salt

However after completing the seven steps i am getting permission denied, errors

2023-07-28 10:59:57,541 [cherrypy.error :213 ][ERROR ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Error in 'start' listener <bound method Server.start of <cherrypy._cpserver.Server object at 0x7fa6294701f0>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py", line 230, in publish output.append(listener(*args, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 179, in start self.httpserver, self.bind_addr = self.httpserver_from_self() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cpserver.py", line 170, in httpserver_from_self httpserver = _cpwsgi_server.CPWSGIServer(self) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/_cpwsgi_server.py", line 99, in init self.ssl_adapter = adapter_class( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cheroot/ssl/builtin.py", line 226, in init self.context.load_cert_chain(certificate, private_key) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

2023-07-28 10:59:57,542 [cherrypy.error :213 ][ERROR ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Shutting down due to error in start listener: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py", line 268, in start self.publish('start') File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py", line 248, in publish raise exc cherrypy.process.wspbus.ChannelFailures: PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')

2023-07-28 10:59:57,543 [cherrypy.error :213 ][INFO ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Bus STOPPING 2023-07-28 10:59:57,543 [cherrypy.error :213 ][INFO ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE HTTP Server None already shut down 2023-07-28 10:59:57,543 [cherrypy.error :213 ][INFO ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Bus STOPPED 2023-07-28 10:59:57,543 [cherrypy.error :213 ][INFO ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Bus EXITING 2023-07-28 10:59:57,544 [cherrypy.error :213 ][INFO ][15068] [28/Jul/2023:10:59:57] ENGINE Bus EXITED