how do I SSH into a GUEST as ROOT instead of vagrant ssh?

[robertj]

Hi,

I want to SSH directly as a root into my running GUEST-VM (ubuntu 11.10 created with veewee)

so I do this "ssh devbox" and I have defined this as my 

~/.ssh/config
Host devbox
  Hostname localhost
  Port     2222
  User     root    
  ForwardX11 yes

however I get a permission denied error

robertj$ ssh devbox

root@localhost's password: 

Permission denied, please try again.

root@localhost's password: 

As I have created this with veewee (2.3.3) I assume that the password of root is "vagrant".

obviously it isn't. also as I have successfully provisioned the GUEST-VM with vagrant
which uses the root user. 

I can btw login as vagrant@devbox

any help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Robert

[Stefan Goethals]

Once you are logged in as vagrant you can # sudo su -   to become root without password.

Zipkid

[Pritesh Mehta]

Vagrant logs in to the guest as the "vagrant" user and uses sudo
configuration to not require a password for admin privileged commands.

An ubuntu box sets a random password for the root user. If you
absolutely have to use the root user to login, you should set a
password for the root user.

--
# After logging in as vagrant
$ sudo passwd -u root
--

You should probably also check that the ssh config [/etc/ssh/
sshd_config] hasn't disabled remote root ssh sessions.

An alternate is to add your ssh PUBLIC key to the root user's
authorized_keys file. (you /could/ use the vagrant users public key if
this machine isn't holding critical or sensitive data. Not recommended
as the private key is in the public domain)

HTH

jasherai

[purna ganesh]

many thanks