Vagrant ssh promtps for password
I had the same issue with vagrant 1.8.1, on several boxes I use (ie: geerlingguy/centos6)
I didn't have any problem with Vagrant 1.7 on those boxes.
After some research on why i could not ssh in that box, it appears that /home/vagrant on the box had 755 permissions and ssh prevent authentication to user with those permissions
extract of /var/log/secure:
Jan 28 15:11:36 server sshd[11721]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/vagrant
To fix that vm, I only have to change the permissions /home/vagrant (did a chmod 700 on it) and now i can ssh directly into my boxes
I don't knwo how to fix it directly I think you should modify your box directly
Hope this helps!
edit: I thought it was a shared folder from the host but it's /vagrant that is shared not /home/vagrant
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Gino Pane almost 2 years
I have a strange problem with
vagrant ssh
. Similar questions, like Vagrant asks for password after SSH key update, or (vagrant & ssh) require password, or Vagrant ssh authentication failure do not help me.So, the plot.
I have a virtual machine running Ubuntu 14.04.3. All setup was made according to this article: https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/building-a-vagrant-box.
Note: I can ssh to this virtual machine using Putty with vagrant's insecure_private_key (converted to *.ppk), which is located "C:/Users/Gino/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key. Password is not promtped.
Then I packaged this virtual machine, init vagrant with this package and ran
vagrant up
. I got "Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...
" error. But nevertheless I couldvagrant ssh
to this machine, but it asked me a password. And if I tried tossh
to it using Putty with the necessary key (as in the first paragraph), it asked me for a password too.I
vagrant halt
ed this machine, found it in VirtualBox VM's list and ran it manually. After that I tried tossh
to this machine using Putty with the same key and succeed - I could logon without any password.Result of
vagrant ssh-config
, if needed:h:\VagrantBoxes\main-server32>vagrant ssh-config Host default HostName 127.0.0.1 User vagrant Port 2222 UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no PasswordAuthentication no IdentityFile "C:/Users/Gino/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key" IdentitiesOnly yes LogLevel FATAL
My
Vagrantfile
(it was generated automatically, almost nothing there, only a suggested line from comments was added):Vagrant.configure(2) do |config| config.vm.box = "vagrant-main-server32" config.ssh.insert_key = false end
So what's the mystery here? Why
ssh
using key works withoutvagrant up
and fails and prompts for password with it?Note. Another funny thing: it still can not authenticate during
vagrant up
. But if at the time when errors "authentication failure" appear I log in to vm through virtualbox, it also succeed to log in in the window withvagrant up
. And thenvagrant ssh
works.