diff --git a/libmachine/provision/utils.go b/libmachine/provision/utils.go
index 516490ea99..2c2579c484 100644
--- a/libmachine/provision/utils.go
+++ b/libmachine/provision/utils.go
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ func ConfigureAuth(p Provisioner) error {
 	// TODO: Switch to passing just authOptions to this func
 	// instead of all these individual fields
 	err = cert.GenerateCert(
-		[]string{ip},
+		[]string{ip, "localhost"},
 		authOptions.ServerCertPath,
 		authOptions.ServerKeyPath,
 		authOptions.CaCertPath,