How to use ssh agent forwarding with "vagrant ssh"?
forwarding, ssh, ssh-keys, vagrant, virtualbox
Solution
I'm using vagrant 2 on OS X Mountain Lion.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.ssh.private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_rsa"
config.ssh.forward_agent = true
end
- `config.ssh.private_key_path` is your local private key
- Your private key must be available to the local ssh-agent. You can check with `ssh-add -L`, if it's not listed add it with `ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa`
- Don't forget to add you public key to `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` on the Vagrant VM. You can do it copy-and-pasting or using a tool like ssh-copy-id
Problem
Rather than create a new SSH key pair on a vagrant box, I would like to re-use the key pair I have on my host machine, using agent forwarding. I've tried setting config.ssh.forward_agent to TRUE in the Vagrantfile, then rebooted the VM, and tried using: ``` vagrant ssh -- -A ``` ...but I'm still getting prompted for a password when I try to do a git checkout. Any idea what I'm missing?