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Laura Cressman
Laura Cressman
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Posted by Laura Cressman
Laura Cressman
12,548 Points

Authentication failure

Hi everyone, I'm trying to install the Treehouse VM on my Mac. When I went typed "vagrant up" into my terminal, everything seemed to work until my machine got to the following output. It kept retrying until I simply shut down the terminal. Help??

default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes... default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222 default: SSH username: treehouse default: SSH auth method: private key default: Warning: Connection timeout. Retrying... default: Warning: Authentication failure. Retrying...

Thanks and smile, Laura :)

1 Answer

Justin Gaba
Justin Gaba
3,311 Points
Justin Gaba
Justin Gaba
3,311 Points

Update: Laura Cressman, I fixed the problem I was having by taking the steps below

  1. Typed 'vagrant ssh-config' in the console
  2. Made sure to halt by typing 'vagrant ssh'
  3. Then deleted my treehouse directory and extracted the contents of this file Link from video
  4. Then typed 'vagrant up' followed by vagrant ssh' and it worked