Cumulus Vagrant Boxes Enforce Expired Passwords

Last Monday, a maintainer reported that CumulusCommunity/cumulus-vx Vagrant boxes began rejecting SSH key logins because included default user passwords had expired, causing integration tests to fail during VM creation. Public boxes lack version metadata and are updated infrequently (latest public box approximately six months old), forcing frequent box replacement, manual fixes, or rebuilds and complicating CI workflows.
Scoring Rationale
Actionable troubleshooting and workaround are useful for affected operators, but vendor-specific, niche issue limits broader relevance and novelty.
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Sources
- Read OriginalGoodbye, Cumulus Community Vagrant Boxes « ipSpace.net blogblog.ipspace.net


