[BUG] User creation never happens on Debian 11 Bullseye

Description
I am using a user.present state to create a user, and requiring the user in several states. When I call sudo salt-call state.apply test=False, the user.present state does not create the user. The log for the state says

----------
          ID: foo
    Function: user.present
      Result: None
     Comment: User foo set to be added
     Changes:
----------

Setup
(Please provide relevant configs and/or SLS files (be sure to remove sensitive info. There is no general set-up of Salt.)

Please be as specific as possible and give set-up details.

• on-prem machine
• VM (Virtualbox, KVM, etc. please specify)
• VM running on a cloud service, please be explicit and add details
• container (Kubernetes, Docker, containerd, etc. please specify)
• or a combination, please be explicit: on-prem libvirt/Vagrant hypervisor running Debian Buster 64; virtualized Debian Bullseye 64 master and minions
• jails if it is FreeBSD

Steps to Reproduce the behavior

1. Install Saltstack 3004.2 on Debian Bullseye 64, using boot strap script
2. create and apply a state like:

foo:
  user.present:
    - shell: /bin/bash
    - home: /home/foo
    - password: ...
    - optional_groups:
      - libvirt
      - salt
      - vagrant
  ssh_auth:
    - present
    - user: foo
    - source: salt://private/keys/foo.pub
    - require:
      - user: foo

Expected behavior
The user foo is created

Relevant parts of log

[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded ssh_auth.present
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded user.present
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded file.managed
[INFO    ] Running state [foo] at time 04:14:04.550460
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded group.info                                                                      
[DEBUG   ] Optional group "libvirt" for user "foo" is not present
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded shadow.info
[INFO    ] Running state [/home/foo/.bashrc] at time 04:14:04.566879
[INFO    ] Executing state file.managed for [/home/foo/.bashrc]
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded file.user_to_uid
[ERROR   ] User foo is not available
[INFO    ] Completed state [/home/foo/.bashrc] at time 04:14:04.571742 (duration_in_ms=4.863)         
[INFO    ] Running state [foo] at time 04:14:04.572454
[INFO    ] Executing state ssh_auth.present for [foo]                                                 
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded cp.get_url
[DEBUG   ] Initializing new AsyncAuth for ('/etc/salt/pki/minion', 'devel.bar.lan', 'tcp://1$2.168.10.100:4506')
[DEBUG   ] Connecting the Minion to the Master URI (for the return server): tcp://192.168.10.100:4506
[DEBUG   ] Trying to connect to: tcp://192.168.10.100:4506
[DEBUG   ] In saltenv 'devel', looking at rel_path 'private/keys/foo@bar.pub' to reso$ve 'salt://private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] In saltenv 'devel', ** considering ** path '/var/cache/salt/minion/files/devel/private/key$/foo@bar.pub' to resolve 'salt://private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] Fetching file from saltenv 'devel', ** attempting ** 'salt://private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] No dest file found
[INFO    ] Fetching file from saltenv 'devel', ** done ** 'private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] In saltenv 'devel', looking at rel_path 'private/keys/foo@bar.pub' to reso$ve 'salt://private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] In saltenv 'devel', ** considering ** path '/var/cache/salt/minion/files/devel/private/key$/foo@bar.pub' to resolve 'salt://private/keys/foo@bar.pub'
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded ssh.set_auth_key
[DEBUG   ] LazyLoaded test.ping
[ERROR   ] Failed to add the ssh key. Is the home directory available, and/or does the key file exist$
[INFO    ] Completed state [foo] at time 04:14:04.651674 (duration_in_ms=79.219)

Versions Report

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3004.2

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: Not Installed
      cherrypy: Not Installed
      dateutil: 2.8.1
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 2.11.3
       libgit2: Not Installed
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.0
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     pycparser: Not Installed
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.9.7
        pygit2: Not Installed
        Python: 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44)
  python-gnupg: Not Installed
        PyYAML: 5.3.1
         PyZMQ: 20.0.0
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: Not Installed
       Tornado: 4.5.3
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

System Versions:
          dist: debian 11 bullseye
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.10.0-13-amd64
        system: Linux
       version: Debian GNU/Linux 11 bullseye

Additional context

Reproduce the Debian Bullseye case with Salt 3004.2 using the shown user.present and ssh_auth.present states. Start by tracing the user.present execution and its require relationship to ssh_auth.present, then compare the state output with the expected creation of user foo and successful SSH-key setup.