Vagrant ssh authentication failure

Question

The problem with ssh authentication:

==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
    default: Adapter 2: bridged
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Connection timeout. Retrying...
    default: Error: Authentication failure. Retrying...
    default: Error: Authentication failure. Retrying...
    default: Error: Authentication failure. Retrying...
    default: Error: Authentication failure. Retrying...
    default: Error: Authentication failure. Retrying...

I can Ctrl+C out of the authentication loop and then successfully ssh in manually.

I performed the following steps on the guest box:

• Enabled Remote Login for All Users.

• Created the ~/.ssh directory with 0700 permissions.

• Created the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file with 0600 permissions.

• Pasted this public key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I've also tried using a private (hostonly) network instead of the public (bridged) network, using this line in the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "172.16.177.7"

I get the same output (except Adapter 2: hostonly) but then cannot ssh in manually.

I also tried config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "10.0.0.100".

I also tried setting config.ssh.password in the Vagrantfile. This does output SSH auth method: password but still doesn't authenticate.

And I also tried rebuilding the box and rechecking all the above.

It looks like others have had success with this configuration, so there must be something I'm doing wrong.

I found this thread and enabled the GUI, but that doesn't help.

Answer 1

For general information: by default to ssh-connect you may simply use

user: vagrant password: vagrant

https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes/base.html#quot-vagrant-quot-user

First, try: to see what vagrant insecure_private_key is in your machine config

$ vagrant ssh-config

Example:

$ vagrant ssh-config
Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile C:/Users/konst/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/ssh_config.html

Second, do: Change the contents of file insecure_private_key with the contents of your personal system private key

Or use: Add it to the Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.ssh.private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
  config.ssh.forward_agent = true
end

1. config.ssh.private_key_path is your local private key
2. Your private key must be available to the local ssh-agent. You can check with ssh-add -L. If it's not listed, add it with ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
3. Don't forget to add your public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the Vagrant VM. You can do it by copy-and-pasting or using a tool like ssh-copy-id (user: root password: vagrant port: 2222) ssh-copy-id '-p 2222 [email protected]'

If still does not work try this:

1. Remove insecure_private_key file from c:\Users\USERNAME\.vagrant.d\insecure_private_key

2. Run vagrant up (vagrant will be generate a new insecure_private_key file)

In other cases, it is helpful to just set forward_agent in Vagrantfile:

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
   config.ssh.forward_agent = true
end

Useful:

Configurating git may be with git-scm.com

After setup this program and creating personal system private key will be in yours profile path: c:\users\USERNAME\.ssh\id_rsa.pub

PS: Finally - suggest you look at Ubuntu on Windows 10