Secure My VPS guide doesn't contain full instructions to disable password logins

[rxall]

By default on a fresh ubuntu VPS install, Include /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*.conf (L12) is included within /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

/etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/50-cloud-init.conf contains the setting PasswordAuthentication Yes

This overrides the setting within /etc/ssh/sshd_config

A user following the Secure My VPS guide step by step won't actually be disabling password logins where the guide would lead them to believe they have.

docs/pages/cloud/vps/secure_your_vps/guide.en-us.md

Line 149 in 6187a1f

Afterwards, connections to your server via root user (`ssh root@IPv4_of_your_VPS`) will be rejected.

[CompeyDev]

Please consider fixing this. I spent 20 minutes confused as to why I was still able to authenticate using password (using ssh flags -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no) after disabling it in sshd_config.

This is pretty misleading documentation.

[darcys22]

still encountering this problem, did this to resolve

sudo rm /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/*

the 2 files in there were simply messing with password authentication and nothing else. No clue why they exist