vagrant: Share ssh folder between host and guest

Question

In order to bundle and connect to Github as my normal self within my VM, I'd like to config.vm.share_folder "ssh", "/home/vagrant/.ssh", "~/.ssh" .

Except this breaks vagrant's public/private key authentication.

Attempted Solution #1

I tried to copy my public key to also be authorized_keys . Same behavior; I need to enter a password to vagrant ssh .

Attempted Solution #2

Copy the public key to authorized_keys , but also set config.ssh.private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_dsa" . This just screwed everything up, though.

Answer 1

I think what you want to look into is SSH agent forwarding. Vagrant has a configuration option to enable this . If you are already running an SSH agent locally this is definitely the way to go.

In fact, even if you aren't running an SSH agent, I would still suggest looking into it.

An alternate, but horribly dirty, solution might be to use a vagrant shell provisioner to place your private key in ~/.ssh/ and set the relevant entries in ~/.ssh/config. Something like:

Host *
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_non_vagrant_key