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authentictech
authentictech

Reputation: 532

Permission denied (publickey) when syncing guest home folder

I see a lot of people are getting this error but none apparently for the same reasons as me. An explanation for the reason in my case would be useful.

After adding this to my vagrant file:

config.vm.synced_folder "./home", "/home/vagrant"

I got the following error when using vagrant ssh:

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey)

When I removed the synced_folder line the error no longer shows and vagrant ssh works fine.

What's happening and why can't I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2427

Answers (2)

xwa130
xwa130

Reputation: 649

A HACK:

You could also create .ssh/authorized_keys in host machine first.

Then run vagrant ssh-config to get the location of your private key.

Then run ssh-keygen -y -f ${your private key} to get your public key.

Finally, copy the content into host machine .ssh/authorized_keys. Don't forget to append vagrant.

Upvotes: 0

leiflundberg
leiflundberg

Reputation: 344

When you configure the guest to have a synced folder at /home/vagrant, it overwrites the entire folder with the contents of your synced folder. Vagrant places its key in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, which allows it to ssh into the guest.

My personal set-up is as follows: 

config.vm.synced_folder "./code", "/home/vagrant/code"

This way you create a new directory in your root directory without overwriting the ssh keys file.

Hope this helps, best regards.

Upvotes: 1

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