Vagrant machine unable to authenticate with my newly created user over ssh - ruby

Question

My vagrantfile looks like this:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
vagrant_home = "/home/vagrant/"
local_share = "#{ENV['HOME']}"
unless Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-vbguest")
puts "Vagrant plugin 'vagrant-vbguest' is not installed!"
puts "Execute: vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest"
end
unless Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-sshfs")
puts "Vagrant plugin 'vagrant-sshfs' is not installed!"
puts "Execute: vagrant plugin install vagrant-sshfs"
end
Vagrant.configure("2") do |stage|
stage.vm.box = "centos/7"
stage.vm.hostname = "HSS-IAAS-VB"
stage.vm.box_check_update = true
stage.vm.network "private_network", :type => 'dhcp'
stage.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.name = "centos7-dev"
vb.gui = false
vb.memory = "1024"
stage.ssh.keys_only = false
stage.ssh.username = "#{ENV['USER']}"
stage.ssh.forward_agent = true
stage.ssh.insert_key = true
stage.ssh.private_key_path = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.ssh/id_rsa" , "/home/#{ENV['USER']}/.ssh/id_rsa
stage.vm.provision :shell, privileged: false do |s|
ssh_pub_key = File.readlines("#{Dir.home}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub").first.strip
s.inline = <<-SHELL
echo #{ssh_pub_key} >> #{ENV['home']}.ssh/authorized_keys
sudo bash -c \"echo #{ssh_pub_key} >> #{ENV['home']}/.ssh/authorized_keys\"
SHELL
end
end
end
My issue is that when I run this vagrantfile, I receive an error that states the following: default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying... and if I run in debug mode I just see a bunch of timeouts..
All that I am trying to do is rather than create a "vagrant" user, I want to create a user that is the same as the user on the host machine by using #{ENV['USER']} and have the user immediately be able to run vagrant ssh and if their host user is test.user, then the guest user will be test.user..
vagrant ssh-config was:
Host default
HostName 127.0.0.1
User aaron.west
Port 2200
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
StrictHostKeyChecking no
PasswordAuthentication no
IdentityFile /Users/aaron.west/.ssh/id_rsa
IdentityFile /Users/aaron.west/.ssh/id_rsa
LogLevel FATAL
all help is appreciated :)

Answer 1

I believe you'll have to create a new user on your Vagrant machine. As per the docs for the ssh.username setting, it doesn't sound like that setting actually creates a user. It only helps you to tell Vagrant what user to connect as, if the box was made with a username other than vagrant.
You probably need to shell out to useradd during provisioning.