Vagrant's Ubuntu 16.04 vagrantfile default password - linux

Question

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?

Answer 1

As of writing this answer: no one ever publicly shared the password for user ubuntu on ubuntu/xenial64 Vagrant box (see #1569237).
It's not necessary. You can:
login using SSH key authentication
change the password using sudo passwd ubuntu (by default ubuntu user has sudo-permissions with NOPASSWD set)
Actually, not only you can, but you should change the password.

Answer 2

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.
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.

Answer 3

The default user and password is:
user: vagrant
password: vagrant

Answer 4

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 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.

Answer 5

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`

Answer 6

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)