Getting Past Vagrant's ''Authentication Failure'' When Starting OpenShift Origin

For getting up and running quickly with OpenShift Origin, Red Hat has an all-in-one VM image you can provision with Vagrant. The instructions mention to not use Vagrant 1.8.5 as there’s an issue with the SSH setup. Well, because I already had 1.8.5 installed for some other projects, I tried anyway, and ran into issues with SSHing into the VM with SSH keys.

When provisioning the VM, you’ll see:

Kevins-MacBook-Pro:openshift-origin kev$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'openshift/origin-all-in-one' is up to date...
==> default: Resuming suspended VM...
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...
    default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...

There are a number of posts discussing this issue and a few workarounds, for example, here and here.

The suggestions relate to switching from the SSH authentication to userid/password by adding this to your Vagrantfile:

config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
config.ssh.password = "vagrant"

I tried this, and when running vagrant up, I had different errors saying to the effect of, “SSH authentication failed.” Next, I tried adding this recommendation: 

config.ssh.insert_key = false

This didn’t make any difference initially, but doing a Vagrant destroy, and then trying to bring it up again initially ran into the same issue. So, I Ctrl-C’d out and tried again, and then it worked the second time. I’m not sure what steps got past the SSH keys issue, but at this point, I was up and running. There’s a long discussion in both the linked threads above that describe the cause of the issue, so if you’re interested, take a look through those threads.