Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password).",

[baditaflorin]

OS: MacosX

ansible -m ping all

192.168.60.4 | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password).",
    "unreachable": true
}
192.168.60.5 | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password).",
    "unreachable": true
}
192.168.60.6 | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password).",
    "unreachable": true
}

cat /etc/ansible/hosts
# Lines beginning with a # are comments and are only included for
# illustration. These comments are overkill for most inventory files.

# Application servers
[app]
192.168.60.4
192.168.60.5

# Database server
[db]
192.168.60.6

# Group 'multi' with all servers
[multi:children]
app
db

# Variables that will ve applied to all servers
[multi:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=vagrant
ansbile_ssh_private_key_file=/Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
ansible_ssh_common_args='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no'

$ vagrant ssh-config
Host app1
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2200
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

Host app2
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2201
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

Host db
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User vagrant
  Port 2202
  UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  PasswordAuthentication no
  IdentityFile /Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  LogLevel FATAL

~/three_servers  cat Vagrantfile
# _*_ mode: ruby _*_
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 # General Vagrant VM configuration
  config.vm.box = "geerlingguy/centos7"
  config.ssh.insert_key = false
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    v.memory = 256
    v.linked_clone = true
  end

# Application server 1.
  config.vm.define "app1" do |app|
    app.vm.hostname = "orc-app1.test"
    app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.4"
  end

# Application server 2.
  config.vm.define "app2" do |app|
    app.vm.hostname = "orc-app2.test"
    app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.5"
  end

# Database server.
  config.vm.define "db" do |db|
     db.vm.hostname = "orc-db.test"
     db.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.6"
  end
end

vagrant status
Current machine states:

app1                      running (virtualbox)
app2                      running (virtualbox)
db                        running (virtualbox)

This environment represents multiple VMs. The VMs are all listed
above with their current state. For more information about a specific
VM, run `vagrant status NAME`.

[baditaflorin]

ansible --version
ansible 2.10.5
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/Users/florin/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.5 (v3.8.5:580fbb018f, Jul 20 2020, 12:11:27) [Clang 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]

[baditaflorin]

I can connect if I do

ssh -p 2200 -i /Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key [email protected]

But when I try

ssh -vvv -p 2200 -i /Users/florin/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key [email protected]
OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/florin/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/florin/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for *
debug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 192.168.60.4 is address
debug2: ssh_connect_direct
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.60.4 [192.168.60.4] port 2200.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.60.4 port 2200: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.60.4 port 2200: Connection refused

[baditaflorin]

Was able to make it work, after reading this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/35969858 It seems that I did not have an ansible.cfg file and this was creating this error.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/ansible.cfg
~/three_servers  pwd
/Users/florin/three_servers
~/three_servers  ls
Vagrantfile  ansible.cfg

 ~/three_servers  ansible -m ping multi

192.168.60.4 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
192.168.60.6 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
192.168.60.5 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

[typ-ex]

If you didn't have the hostnames set to 127.0.0.1 I think it would have worked out without the ansible.cfg

[nitinsinghit]

Was able to make it work, after reading this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/35969858 It seems that I did not have an ansible.cfg file and this was creating this error.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/ansible.cfg
~/three_servers  pwd
/Users/florin/three_servers
~/three_servers  ls
Vagrantfile  ansible.cfg

 ~/three_servers  ansible -m ping multi

192.168.60.4 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
192.168.60.6 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}
192.168.60.5 | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

I tried ansible.cfg but still same error

[defaults]
inventory = hosts.ini
nocows = True

[cwebley]

Went through this issue as well. If you're like me, you just need to pull down the latest code for this chapter.

If you're following an old version of the book, or the youtube playlist you'll want to update your Vagrantfile and inventory file (hosts.ini) to the latest published in this repo.

vagrant destroy your old machines and vagrant up the new ones, then

ansible multi -i hosts.ini -a "hostname"

and you should get the output you're expecting