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Vagrant's Ubuntu 16.04 vagrantfile default password

I'm attempting to deploy and run an Ubuntu 16.04 VM via Vagrant 1.9.1.
The Vagrantfile I'm using is from Atlas:

Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 Vagrantfile

I'm using Debian Stretch as the host OS. Vagrant was installed via a .deb available from Vagrant's website.

The Vagrantfile does run and deploy correctly. I can ssh into the VM via both my host OS and using 'vagrant ssh'. However, I have one minor blocker when attempting to ssh in from outside.

The default user in this VM is named 'ubuntu', and looks to have a password set. However, I have no idea what the password is at all, and no docs seem to have the information that I'm looking for. Attempting to set a password via 'passwd' within the VM asks for a current password. Anyone see where this is going?

So my big question is this: has anyone else deployed this same Vagrantfile, and if so, does anyone know what the default user's password is?

5 Answers
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^{As of writing this answer: no one ever publicly shared the password for user ubuntu on ubuntu/xenial64 Vagrant box (see #1569237).}

ubuntu

ubuntu/xenial64

It's not necessary. You can:

sudo passwd ubuntu

ubuntu

NOPASSWD

Actually, not only you can, but you should change the password.

The password is located in the ~/.vagrant.d/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20161221.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile as mention by user @prometee in this launchpad discussion #1569237.

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

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.

this bug report having been filed

no [...] decision has been made yet

Vagrantfile

vagrant

/boxes

~/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20171028.0.0/virtualbox/Vagrantfile

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.

ubuntu/xenial64

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

/vagrant/vm01/Vagrantfile

/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:

private_key

ENTER

ssh -i /vagrant/vm01/.vagrant/..../private_key <your vm user>@<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.

Not sure about the ubuntu 16.X password when you install through vagrant, but you can change that by your own by following below steps -

[~/from-vagrant-project]vagrant ssh
[ubuntu@hostname]sudo -i
root@hostname:~# passwd ubuntu
Enter new UNIX password:XXXXX
Retype new UNIX password:XXXXX
passwd: password updated successfully`


if this can help:

I solved the custom packaging issue by creating a normal VM (in my case ubuntu/xenial), then copying the Identify file found with vagrant ssh-config and using that file for config.sshprivate_key_path, plus also setting config.ssh.username to ubuntu.
(see also https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/5186#issuecomment-355012068)

vagrant ssh-config

config.sshprivate_key_path

config.ssh.username

ubuntu

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