Ansible SSH forwarding doesn't seem to work with Vagrant

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OK, strange question. I have SSH forwarding working with Vagrant. But I'm trying to get it working when using Ansible as a Vagrant provisioner. I found out exactly what Ansible is executing, and tried it myself from the command line, sure enough, it fails there too. ``` [/common/picsolve-ansible/u12.04%]ssh -o HostName=127.0.0.1 \ -o User=vagrant -o Port=2222 -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null \ -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o PasswordAuthentication=no \ -o IdentityFile=/Users/bryanhunt/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key \ -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o LogLevel=FATAL \ -o ForwardAgent=yes "/bin/sh \ -c 'git clone git@bitbucket.org:bryan_picsolve/poc_docker.git /home/vagrant/poc_docker' " Permission denied (publickey,password). ``` But when I just run vagrant ssh the agent forwarding works correctly, and I can checkout R/W my github project. ``` [/common/picsolve-ansible/u12.04%]vagrant ssh vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64:~$ /bin/sh -c 'git clone git@bitbucket.org:bryan_picsolve/poc_docker.git /…

Accepted Answer

As of ansible 1.5 (devel aa2d6e47f0) last updated 2014/03/24 14:23:18 (GMT +100) and Vagrant 1.5.1 this now works.

My Vagrant configuration contains the following:

```
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
   ansible.playbook = "../playbooks/basho_bench.yml"
   ansible.sudo = true
   ansible.host_key_checking = false
   ansible.verbose =  'vvvv'
   ansible.extra_vars = { ansible_ssh_user: 'vagrant', 
                 ansible_connection: 'ssh',
                 ansible_ssh_args: '-o ForwardAgent=yes'}
```

It is also a good idea to explicitly disable sudo use. For example, when using the Ansible git module, I do this:

```
- name: checkout basho_bench repository 
  sudo: no
  action: git repo=git@github.com:basho/basho_bench.git dest=basho_bench
```

Ansible SSH forwarding doesn't seem to work with Vagrant

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