Vagrant ssh authentication failure

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The problem with ssh authentication      gt  default  Clearing any previously set forwarded ports       gt  default  Clearing any previously set network interfaces       gt  default  Preparing network interfaces based on configuration        default  Adapter 1  nat     default  Adapter 2  bridged    gt  default  Forwarding ports        default  22   gt  2222  adapter 1     gt  default  Booting VM       gt  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

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This might be the last answer in the list but this worked for me and I did not find this answer anywhere, I found it my self after 2 days of researches so you've better try this if nothing else worked for you until now.

In my case the problem came from my VirtualBox. I don't know for what reason an option was disabled and it should have been enabled.

As you can see in the image, there were some network problems with my VirtualBox and what I had to do in order to fix this problem was to select my machine, press on settings, network tab and after that make sure that the option Cable Connected was selected. In my case this option was not selected and I it failed at this step:

default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key

First I thought that the port is already in use, after that I reinstalled Vagrant and I also tried other things but none of them worked for me.

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This can also happen if you re trying to force your VM to use a root user by default for SSH      For example  a config like so in your Vagrantfile may cause this failure   config ssh username    root  config ssh password    vagrant  config ssh insert key    true    Solution  Comment out those lines and try again

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I solved this problem by running commands on windows 7 CMD as given in this here is the link last post on this thread   https   github com mitchellh vagrant issues 6744  Some commands that will reinitialize various network states  Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults   netsh winsock reset catalog Reset TCP IP stack to installation defaults   netsh int ip reset reset log Flush DNS resolver cache   ipconfig  flushdns Renew DNS client registration and refresh DHCP leases   ipconfig  registerdns Flush routing table   route  f

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This has happened to me several times and the way I solved it was     Check and make sure your Vagrantfile has the correct private key path    config ssh private key path     home razvan  ssh id rsa  Execute    vagrant ssh command in a linux terminal On your vagrant machine go to   cd  home vagrant  ssh   and check if the ssh key in the authorized keys file is the same as the one you have on your local machine in    ssh id rsa pub  If not replace the one from your vagrant authorized keys with the one on your local machine found in    ssh id rsa pub    Reload Vagrant    vagrant reload   Hope this helps someone else  Cheers

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Been beating my head on this for the last couple of days on a repackaged base box   Mac OS X  El Capitan   Following  Radek  s procedure I did  vagrant ssh-config  on the source box and got        Users Shared dev  lt source-box-name gt   vagrant machines default virtualbox private key       On the new copy  that command gave me       IdentityFile  Users  lt username gt   vagrant d insecure private key       So  I just added this line in the new copy       config ssh private key path     Users Shared dev  lt source-box-name gt   vagrant machines default virtualbox private key        Not perfect  but I can get on with my life

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Simple   homestead destroy homestead up   Edit  Not as simple as first thought    The issue was that new versions of homestead use php7 0 and some other stuff  To avoid this mess up make sure you set the verison in Homestead yml   version   0

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In my experience  this has been a surprisingly frequent problem with new vagrant machines  By far the easiest way to solve it  instead of altering the configuration itself  has been creating the required ssh keys manually on the client  then using the private key on the host    Log in to vagrant machine  vagrant ssh  use default password vagrant  Create ssh keys  for example  ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  vagrant   as adviced by GitHub s relevant guide   Rename the public key file  by default id rsa pub   overriding the old one  mv  ssh id rsa pub  ssh authorized keys  Reload ssh service in case needed  sudo service ssh reload  Copy the private key file  by default id rsa  to the host machine  for instance  use a fine combination of cat and clipboard  cat  ssh id rsa  paint and copy  better ways must exist  go invent one    Logout from the vagrant machine  logout  Find the current private key used by vagrant by looking at its configuration  vagrant ssh-config  look for instance   dentityFile         private key   Replace the current private key with the one you created at the host machine  for example  nano        private key and paste from the clipboard  if all else fails   Note  however  that if your private key is not project specific but shared by multiple vagrant machines  you better configure the path yourself in order to not break other perfectly working machines  Changing the path is as simple as adding a line config ssh private key path    path to private key  into the Vagrantfile   Furthermore  if you are using PuPHPet generated machine  you can store your private key to file puphpet files dot ssh id rsa and it will be added to Vagrantfile s ssh config automatically  Test the setup  vagrant ssh should now work    Should that be the case  congratulate yourself  logout  run vagrant provision if needed and carry on with the meaningful task at hand   If you still face problems  it may come handy to add verbose flag to ssh command to ease debugging  You can pass that  or any other option  for that matter  after double dash  For example  typing vagrant ssh -- -v  Feel free to add as many v s as you need  each will give you more information

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I have found a way around the mess with the keys on Win 8 2 where I did not succeed with any of the methods mentioned here  It may be interesting that exactly the same combination of VirtualBox  Vagrant  and the box run on Win 7 Ultimate without any problems   I switched to the password authentication by adding the following commands in Vagrantfile   config ssh password    vagrant  config ssh insert key   false   Note that I m not sure that this is the only changes required because I already did    I generated a new RSA key pair and changed authorized keys file accordingly  all in the virtual machine  see the suggestions above and elsewhere  I copied the private key to the same directory where Vagrantfile resides and added    config ssh private key path      id rsa     But I believe that these changes were irrelevant  I spent a plenty of time trying  so I did not change the working configuration by obvious reasons

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Problem I was getting the ssh authentication errors  on a box I provisioned  The original was working ok   The problem for me was I was missing a private key in  vagrant machines default virtualbox private key  I copied the private key from the same relative location from the original box and Viola

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I am using Vagrant with a Puphpet setup from May 2015 and had this problem  It appears that the configuration that was generated didn t handle Vagrant 1 7 4  or maybe a bit earlier   behavior of regenerating ssh keys if it detects an insecure key   I solved it by adding the following in my Puphpet generated Vagrantfile  local setup  inside the  if File file  customKey   clause   config ssh insert key   false   Reference commit

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for me  this was resolved by changing the permissions on  ssh folder in vagrant home directort  i e    vagrant  ssh    I think I messed up the permissions when I was setting up ssh keys for my application   It seems that  authorized keys  file must be  rw  only for  vagrant  user so  chmod 600 authorized keys   the same goes for the directory itself and its parent   so   chmod 600 authorized keys chmod 700   chmod 700      It was only after I had all these permissions restored that vagrant ssh started to work again   I think it s something to do with ssh security  It refuses to recognise certificates if they are any way accessible beyond the current user  so vagrants attempts to login are thus rejected

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Make sure your first network interface is NAT  The other second network interface can be anything you want when you re building box  Don t forget the Vagrant user  as discussed in the Google thread    Good luck

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Run the following commands in guest machine VM   wget https   raw githubusercontent com mitchellh vagrant master keys vagrant pub -O    ssh authorized keys chmod 700    ssh chmod 600    ssh authorized keys chown -R vagrant vagrant    ssh   Then do vagrant halt  This will remove and regenerate your private keys    These steps assume you have already created or already have the    ssh  and    ssh authorized keys directories under your home folder

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Mac Solution    Added local ssh id rsa key to vagrant private key  vi  Users   vagrant machines default virtualbox private key   Users   ssh id rsa copied public key  Users   ssh id rsa pub on vagrant box authorized keys   ssh vagrant localhost -p 2222  password  vagrant  ls -la cd  ssh   chmod 0600    ssh authorized keys vagrant reload   Problem resolved   Thanks to

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This the all correct steps that I followed for fix this bellow issue occurred when vagrant up command run   These are the steps that I followed    create a folder  e g F  projects Open this folder in git bash and run this command     ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  your email example com   put a valid email address  Then generating key pair in two separate files in the project folder  e g  project private key file   project pub  public key file  Go to this location C  Users acer vagrant d and find file insecure private key Get backup of the file and copy the content of newly created private key and paste it in insecure private key file  Then copy insecure private key and paste it in this location too  Now vagrant up in your project location  after generating above issue type vagrant ssh and go inside giving username  password   in default username and password is set as vagrant  Go inside to this location  cd  home vagrant  ssh and type mv authorized keys authorized keys bk Then type ls -al and type vi authorized keys for open authorized keys file vi editor  Open generated public key from notepad    project pub  and copy content Then press i on git bash to enable insert mode on vi editor and right click and paste  After press escape to get out from insert mode  wq  for save the file and type ls -al Then permissions are set like bellow no need to change   drwx------  2 vagrant vagrant 4096 Feb 13 15 33   drwx------  4 vagrant vagrant 4096 Feb 13 14 04    -rw-------  1 vagrant vagrant  743 Feb 13 14 26 authorized keys -rw-------  1 root    root     409 Feb 13 13 57 authorized keys bk -rw-------  1 vagrant vagrant  409 Jan  2 23 09 authorized keys originial Otherwise type chmod 600 authorized keys and type this command too chown vagrant vagrant authorized keys Finally run the vagrant halt and vagrant up again                             THIS IS WORK FINE FOR ME

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I tried this on my VM machine  change the permissions  home vagrant  did a chmod 700 on it    now i can ssh directly into my boxes

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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    config ssh private key path is your local private key 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 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 root 127 0 0 1    If still does not work try this    Remove insecure private key file from c  Users USERNAME  vagrant d insecure private key 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

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None of the above worked for me  Somehow the box had the wrong public key added in the vagrant user authorised keys file    If you can still ssh on the box with the vagrant password  password is vagrant    i e   ssh vagrant localhost -p 2222   then copy the public key content from https   raw githubusercontent com mitchellh vagrant master keys vagrant pub to the authorised keys file with the following command  echo  ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA6NF8iallvQVp22WDkTkyrtvp9eWW6A8YVr kz4TjGYe7gHzIw niNltGEFHzD8 v1I2YJ6oXevct1YeS0o9HZyN1Q9qgCgzUFtdOKLv6IedplqoPkcmF0aYet2PkEDo3MlTBckFXPITAMzF8dJSIFo9D8HfdOV0IAdx4O7PtixWKn5y2hMNG0zQPyUecp4pzC6kivAIhyfHilFR61RGL GPXQ2MWZWFYbAGjyiYJnAmCP3NOTd0jMZEnDkbUvxhMmBYSdETk1rRgm R4LOzFUGaHqHDLKLX FIPKcF96hrucXzcWyLbIbEgE98OHlnVYCzRdK8jlqm8tehUc9c9WhQ   vagrant insecure public key   gt   ssh authorized keys   When done exit the VM and try vagrant ssh again  It should work now

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also could not get beyond   default  SSH auth method  private key  When I used the VirtualBox GUI  it told me there was an OS processor mismatch   To get vagrant up progressing further  in the BIOS settings I had to counter-intuitively   Disable  Virtualisation  Enable  VT-X  Try toggling these setting in your BIOS

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If you are using default SSH setup in your VagrantFile and started seeing SSH authentication errors after re-associating your VM box due to crash  try replacing public key in your vagrant machine   Vagrant replaces public key associated with insecure private key pair at each log out due to security reasons  If you didn t properly shut down your machine  public private key pair can go out of sync  causing SSH authentication error   To resolve this issue  simply load up the current insecure private key and then copy the public key pair into your VM s authorized keys file

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I resolved the issue in the following manner  1   Create new SSH key using Git Bash    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  vagrant localhost    Creates a new ssh key  using the provided email as a label Generating public private rsa key pair     When you re prompted to  Enter a file in which to save the key   press Enter  This accepts the default file location   Enter a file in which to save the key   Users  you   ssh id rsa    Press enter  At the prompt  type a secure passphrase  You can leave empty and press enter if you do not need a passphrase   Enter a file in which to save the key   Users  you   ssh id rsa    Press enter  To connect to your Vagrant VM type following command  ssh vagrant localhost -p 2222   When you get following message type    yes    and press enter   The authenticity of host  github com  192 30 252 1   can t be established  RSA key fingerprint is 16 27 ac a5 76 28 2d 36 63 1b 56 4d eb df a6 48  Are you sure you want to continue connecting  yes no      Now to establish a SSH connection type     vagrant ssh Copy the host public key into authorized keys file in Vagrant VM  For that  go to    Users  you   ssh    folder and copy the content in id rsa pub file in host machine and past into       ssh authorized keys    file in Vagrant VM  Change permission on SSH folder and authorized keys file in Vagrant VM Restart vagrant with     vagrant reload

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Just for those people that have been idiots like me  or have had something odd happen to their vagrant machine  This error can also occur when you changed the permissions of the vagrant user s home directory  deliberately or by accident    You can log in instead  as described in other posts  using the password   vagrant   and then run the following command to fix the permissions   sudo chown -R vagrant vagrant  home vagrant  Then you should be able to log in again without entering the password   TL DR  The permissions on your vagrant home folder are wrong

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Between all of the responses here  there are lots of good things to try  For completeness  if you  ssh vagrant localhost -p 2222  as  Bizmate suggests  and it fails  be sure you have   AllowUsers vagrant  in the  etc ssh sshd config of your guest vagrant machine

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Unable to run vagrant up because it gets stuck and times out  I recently had a  quot water in laptop incident quot  and had to migrate to a new one on a MAC by the way   I successfully got all my projects up and running beside the one  which was using vagrant    vagrant up Bringing machine  default  up with  virtualbox  provider       gt  default  Clearing any previously set forwarded ports       gt  default  Clearing any previously set network interfaces       gt  default  Preparing network interfaces based on configuration        default  Adapter 1  nat     default  Adapter 2  hostonly    gt  default  Forwarding ports        default  8000  guest    gt  8877  host   adapter 1      default  8001  guest    gt  8878  host   adapter 1      default  8080  guest    gt  7777  host   adapter 1      default  5432  guest    gt  2345  host   adapter 1      default  5000  guest    gt  8855  host   adapter 1      default  22  guest    gt  2222  host   adapter 1     gt  default  Running  pre-boot  VM customizations       gt  default  Booting VM       gt  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  Warning  Authentication failure  Retrying        default  Warning  Authentication failure  Retrying        default  Warning  Authentication failure  Retrying     It couldn t authenticate  retried again and again and eventually gave up   This is how I got it back in shape in 3 steps  1 - Find the IdentityFile used by Vagrant    vagrant ssh-config  Host default   HostName 127 0 0 1   User vagrant   Port 2222   UserKnownHostsFile  dev null   StrictHostKeyChecking no   PasswordAuthentication no   IdentityFile  Users ned  vagrant d insecure private key   IdentitiesOnly yes   LogLevel FATAL  2 - Check the public key in the IdentityFile    ssh-keygen -y -f  lt path-to-insecure private key gt   It d output something like this  ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nyc2EAAA   9gE98OHlnVYCzRdK8jlqm8hQ    3 - Log in to the Vagrant guest with the password vagrant  ssh -p 2222 -o UserKnownHostsFile  dev null vagrant 127 0 0 1  The authenticity of host   127 0 0 1  2222   127 0 0 1  2222   can t be established  RSA key fingerprint is dc 48 73 c3 18 e4 9d 34 a2 7d 4b 20 6a e7 3d 3e  Are you sure you want to continue connecting  yes no   yes Warning  Permanently added   127 0 0 1  2222   RSA  to the list of known hosts  vagrant 127 0 0 1 s password  vagrant Welcome to Ubuntu 16 04 1 LTS  GNU Linux 4 4 0-31-generic x86 64       NOTE  if vagrant guest is configured to disallow password authentication you need to open VBox  GUI  double click guest name  login as vagrant vagrant  then sudo -s and edit  etc ssh sshd config and look for PasswordAuthentication no line  usually at the end of the file   replace no with yes and restart sshd  i e  systemctl reload sshd or  etc init d sshd restart   4 - Add the public key to the  home vagrant authorized keys file    echo  quot ssh-rsa AA2EAAA   9gEdK8jlqm8hQ   vagrant quot   gt   home vagrant  ssh authorized keys  5 - Exit  CTRL d  and stop the Vagrant guest and then bring it back up   IMPORTANT if you use any provisioning tools  i e  Ansible etc  disable it before restarting your guest as Vagrant will think your guest is not provisioned because of use of insecure private key  It will reinstall the key and then run your provisioner     vagrant halt   vagrant up  Hopefully you will have your arms in the air now    I got this  with just a minor amend  from Ned Batchelders article - Ned you are a champ

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First of all you should remove the autogenerated insecure private key file  then regenerate this file by typing  vagrant ssh-config   then   vagrant halt vagrant up   It should work

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If you experience this issue on vagrant 1 8 5  then check out this thread on github    https   github com mitchellh vagrant issues 7610  It s caused basically by a permission issue  the workaround is just   vagrant ssh  password  vagrant  chmod 0600    ssh authorized keys exit   then  vagrant reload    FYI  this issue only affects CentOS  Ubuntu works fine

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1  Locate the private key in the host   vagrant ssh-config     Output   Host default         Port 2222         IdentityFile  home me  vagrant d       virtualbox vagrant private key         2  Store the private key path and the port number in variables   Use these two commands with the output from above   pk   home me  vagrant d     virtualbox vagrant private key  port 2222     3  Generate a public key and upload it to the guest machine   Copy pasta  no changes needed   ssh-keygen -y -f  pk  gt  authorized keys scp -P  port authorized keys vagrant localhost    ssh  vagrant ssh -c  chmod 600    ssh authorized keys  rm authorized keys

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Another simple solution  in windows  go to the file Homestead Vagrantfile and add these lines to connect with a username password instead of a private key   config ssh username    vagrant    config ssh password    vagrant    config ssh insert key   false    So  finally part of the file will look like this    if File exists  homesteadYamlPath then     settings   YAML  load File read homesteadYamlPath   elsif File exists  homesteadJsonPath then     settings   JSON parse File read homesteadJsonPath   end  config ssh username    vagrant    config ssh password    vagrant    config ssh insert key   false   Homestead configure config  settings   if File exists  afterScriptPath then     config vm provision  shell   path  afterScriptPath  privileged  false end   Hope this help

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I have started the machine  then   vagrant ssh-config  I ve gotten the following    Host default   HostName 127 0 0 1   User vagrant   Port 2222   UserKnownHostsFile  dev null   StrictHostKeyChecking no   PasswordAuthentication no   IdentityFile  Users my-user-name Documents PHP-Projects my-php-project puphpet files dot ssh id rsa   IdentityFile  Users my-user-name  vagrant d insecure private key   IdentitiesOnly yes   LogLevel FATAL   Then I ve ran   cat    ssh id rsa  gt   Users my-user-name Documents PHP-Projects my-php-project puphpet files dot ssh id rsa   Machine booted from here on   El Capitan 10 11 1 Beta  15B38b   Virtual Box 5 0 8 r103449  Vagrant 1 7 4

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