Hello all, I was able to finally find out how to ssh on to a user other 
than vagrant with help from a colleague. Here are the steps outlined that I 
took, for future reference of those also experiencing the same problem:

1. vagrant ssh on to the user vagrant

2. create/su user you wish to ssh into

3. create .ssh with 700 permission and cd into .ssh

4. ssh-keygen, and create you id_rsa private and public key

5. cat your public key into your authorized_keys and chmod it to 600 
permission

6. ssh into the user from the users own .ssh directory (ssh -i id_rsa 
<user@>localhost/private_network/public_network) so it is added to the 
known_hosts

7. copy the id_rsa and put it into a .pem file on your localhost side 
(outside of the box) with chmod 600. 


You should now be able to ssh onto a specified user other than vagrant. 

On Monday, 12 December 2016 16:06:06 UTC, Will Seaford wrote:
>
>
> Hi Alvaro thanks for your reply, much appreciated,
>
> Unfortunately the second option I had tried before posting and forgot to 
> list it aside the other methods I tried. 
>
> I am trying the first method now but a colleague has advised me this 
> probably won't work. 
>
> Many thanks,
>
> William
> On Saturday, 10 December 2016 19:53:04 UTC, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:
>>
>> Hello, I see 2 options.
>>
>> A. 
>> create a new user
>> set the public known key there
>> package the box if you are on virtualbox
>>
>> vagrant package
>>
>>      package         packages a running vagrant environment into a box
>>
>>
>> Then you should be able to overwrite the user with
>>
>>
>> config.ssh.username in the Vagrantfile
>>
>> B.
>>
>> Set a private or public ip, and ssh to that ip using the user/pass you 
>> want to test.
>>
>>
>> Alvaro.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Will Seaford <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I am currently trying to demonstrate SELinux on a centOS/7 virtual 
>>> machine and in order for policy changes to take effect I have to log on as 
>>> the user itself rather than su'ing over to it. This has created a difficult 
>>> issue with me and accessing the box via any other user than 'vagrant'. 
>>>
>>> I have tried the following methods:
>>>
>>> -> vagrant ssh -- -l <user> 
>>> -> ssh -i <route/to/private_key> -p 2222 <user>@localhost 
>>> -> configuring VagrantFile to include config.ssh.{username, password} 
>>> -> actually placing the public key on the box via the vagrant user into 
>>> known_hosts and/or authorised_keys. 
>>>
>>> All methods work if the vagrant user is specified. 
>>>
>>> All methods tried have returned the following error - "Permission denied 
>>> (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic.)" if a user other than 'vagrant' 
>>> is specified.
>>>
>>> I have made a paste of my error log - http://pastebin.com/CEWkGgAF
>>>
>>> Can anybody spot the problem I am facing and any possible solutions I 
>>> can do to rectify it?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> William
>>>
>>>
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