Hi Alvaro, I am very grateful for your efforts to help me understand what is going on.
It seems that I have followed all the steps you describe, and yet I am still asked for a password when I run `vagrant ssh` on the new box (the one created from the package). I'm using ubuntu/xenial64 <https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/xenial64>. When I look in ~/.vagrant.d/boxes/, I find two directories: ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64 and custom (which contains my package). The most obvious difference between these two directories as that there are two extra items in the custom folder: - A file named vagrant_private_key - Afolder named include which contains a file named _Vagrantfile This _Vagrantfile contains the following text: # 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 = "022185D04910" *config.ssh.username = "ubuntu"* * config.ssh.password = "27f8dbe40a2e195f6bd6434a"* 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 >From your explanations, I understand the ubuntu/xenial64 box contains a default username and password pair, that the config.ssh.insert_key = false directive in the Vagrantfile for the intermediate box should prevent the package from creating its own key, so that the default username and password pair from the ubuntu/xenial64 box is used instead. But if my understanding is correct then there should be no vagrant_private_key in the custom directory. I have provided a detailed description of all the steps that I am taking here <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s175/sh/404e9e81-2858-4c0b-821f-3588cde5a556/6c59e2415223c01b074127ecd27d3d74> . I would appreciate it if your could show me where my logic is faulty. Thanks in advance, James -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues IRC: #vagrant on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vagrant-up/cae31d71-d8db-45c5-810a-863e448c4e51%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
