ubuntu xenial64 box password?

Question

Probably a stupid question but

I have used the trusty64 box before with vagrant and was trying the xenial64 box but it doesn't accept the usual user: vagrant password: vagrant login?

score 30 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 16 '17 at 21:49

As mention by user @prometee in this launchpad discussion #1569237, you can find the password in:

~/.vagrant.d/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20161221.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile

or:

~/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20161221.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile

depending on your version of Vagrant. (Note the 20161221.0.0 part of the path will vary depending on when the box was downloaded. Also, there might be more than one in your directory.)

Here is mine (line 8):

# Front load the includes
include_vagrantfile = File.expand_path("../include/_Vagrantfile", __FILE__)
load include_vagrantfile if File.exist?(include_vagrantfile)

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.base_mac = "022999D56C03"
  config.ssh.username = "ubuntu"
  config.ssh.password = "fbcd1ed4fe8c83b157dc6e0f"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uart1", "0x3F8", "4" ]
     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File.join(Dir.pwd, "ubuntu-xenial-16.04-cloudimg-console.log") ]
  end
end

FYI, user @racb mention in the same discusison that the this bug report having been filed to ubuntu and so far no [...] decision has been made yet about it.

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 28 '16 at 02:22

I banged my head against the wall for half a day yesterday until I realised I was running an old version of Virtualbox (5.0.x) and Vagrant (1.8.0)

Updated to VirtualBox 5.1.x and Vagrant 1.8.7 and got better results

Basically the ubuntu/xenial32 and ubuntu/xenial64 images are flawed as they don't come with the vagrant user out of the box.

This is against the Vagrant specifications

I ended up using v0rtex/xenial64 as recommended in this bug report. Not sure why canonical is not fixing this

My vagrant file is as follows

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "v0rtex/xenial64"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.10.10.10"

  config.ssh.username = 'vagrant'
  config.ssh.password = 'vagrant'

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
     vb.name = "supercool"
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "768"]
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
  end

end

If you still want to use the canonical provided images it is possible using the following approach

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.10.10.10"

  config.ssh.insert_key = true
  config.ssh.forward_agent = true

  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
     vb.name = "supercool"
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "768"]
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
  end

end

If you do that the /vagrant folder will be owned by ubuntu:ubuntu instead of vagrant:vagrant. If you have scripts relying on the vagrant user to be there they will break

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 13 '18 at 20:23

4

It has been fixed at last (2018/01/13): https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1569237/comments/111

You may want to run vagrant box update and then vagrant destroy.

answered Jan 13 '18 at 20:23

xverges

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 07:43

A way is to install expect and initiate a password change. The example below sets the password ubuntu to user ubuntu.

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
    apt-get install -y expect
    echo '#!/usr/bin/expect
      set timeout 20
      spawn sudo passwd ubuntu
      expect "Enter new UNIX password:" {send "ubuntu\\r"}
      expect "Retype new UNIX password:" {send "ubuntu\\r"}
      interact' > change_ubuntu_password
    chmod +x change_ubuntu_password
  ./change_ubuntu_password
end

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited May 04 '21 at 12:00

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I'm using Vagrant on Windows and image of ubuntu/xenial64; no password is configured for it.

Default UserName: vagrant
Default Host: 127.0.0.1:2222
Default SSH Key: C:/Vagrant/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

You can login to your VM box via this command:

 vagrant ssh

or with:

ssh -i private_key vagrant@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

edited May 04 '21 at 12:00

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answered Jun 26 '18 at 22:07

ADV-IT

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 20 '17 at 05:19

The new ubuntu/xenial64 image doesn't come with a default username and password. However you can ssh using an ssh-key generated in your vagrant folder.

Let's say your Vagrantfile is at /vagrant/vm01/Vagrantfile, the ssh-key would be in /vagrant/vm01/.vagrant/machines/..../private_key

You can login to your vagrant vm using this private_key. If the guest machine ask for the key's passphrase, just hit ENTER (specifying a blank passphrase). For example, on my Mac:

ssh -i /vagrant/vm01/.vagrant/..../private_key <your vm ip> <your vm port>

If you still want to log in using username and password, after logging in using the private_key, you can add your own user for logging in later:

# create a user for log in
sudo useradd yourusername

# specify a password
sudo passwd yourusername
# then type your password when prompted

# add the user to sudo group
sudo adduser yourusername sudo    

# create a home folder for your user
sudo mkdir /home/yourusername

# add a shell command for your user (normally /bin/bash)
sudo vim /etc/passwd
# find yourusername line, and add /bin/bash to the end.
# the end result would look like this:
yourusername:x:1020:1021::/home/yourusername:/bin/bash

Now you can ssh using the new username and password.

score 1 · Answer 7 · edited Apr 24 '17 at 12:20

You can output OpenSSH valid configuration to connect to the machine by typing vagrant ssh-config from within your Vagrantfile folder. The output will show you that password authentication is disabled, however you can point to the private key file:

Host default
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User ubuntu
  Port 2222
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /path/to/project/folder/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

Now you can:

ssh -i /path/to/project/folder/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key ubuntu@machine-ip

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 29 '19 at 11:06

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After vagrant up to start a virtual machine, you can vagrant ssh to login. Run vagrant help for more information.

answered Dec 29 '19 at 11:06

Mahler

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 28 '17 at 08:44

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If you're not interested in ubuntu/xenial64 box but any other 16.04 LTS box I used the bento one that works with the usual vagrant username and password:

config.vm.box = 'bento/ubuntu-16.04'
config.vm.box_version = "201708.22.0"

answered Sep 28 '17 at 08:44

raisercostin

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ubuntu xenial64 box password?

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