Avoid the "Neither 'source' nor 'contents' nor 'contents_pillar' nor 'contents_grains' was defined, yet 'replace' was set to 'True'." Warning

i don't understand why you'd want to deal with the same file in two different places anyway.

users/init.sls

@@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ ssh_auth_delete_{{ name }}_{{ loop.index0 }}:
 
 {% if 'sudouser' in user and user['sudouser'] %}
 
-sudoer-{{ name }}:
-  file.managed:
-    - name: {{ users.sudoers_dir }}/{{ name }}
-    - user: root
-    - group: {{ users.root_group }} 
-    - mode: '0440'
 {% if 'sudo_rules' in user %}
 {% for rule in user['sudo_rules'] %}
 "validate {{ name }} sudo rule {{ loop.index0 }} {{ name }} {{ rule }}":
@@ -191,13 +185,16 @@ sudoer-{{ name }}:
 
 {{ users.sudoers_dir }}/{{ name }}:
   file.managed:
+    - user: root
+    - group: {{ users.root_group }}
+    - mode: '0440'
     - contents: |
       {%- for rule in user['sudo_rules'] %}
         {{ name }} {{ rule }}
       {%- endfor %}
     - require:
       - file: sudoer-defaults
-      - file: sudoer-{{ name }}
+
 {% endif %}
 {% else %}
 {{ users.sudoers_dir }}/{{ name }}:
@@ -252,4 +249,3 @@ googleauth-{{ svc }}-{{ name }}:
 {{ group }}:
   group.absent
 {% endfor %}
-