How to enable password based authentication for SSH access to server

How to enable password based authentication for SSH access to server

Introduction

This article will provide you with the steps of enabling password-based authentication while logging in to your server through SSH. Before enabling password-based authentication to make sure that you know the password already. If you want to change it before enabling password-based authentication, log in as root user and then run the following command in the terminal, 
passwd
You will be prompted to enter the new password. Enter your new password and finish the setup process.

Step 1: After logging into your server as root user, enter the sshd_config file in editing mode. You can do this by running the following command in the terminal. We will use vim editor for this article. Press I to edit the file 
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Step 2: Look for the line PasswordAuthentication no and replace no with yes. 
PasswordAuthentication yes
Press ESC key and save the changes to the file and exit the editor by typing: wq! and then hit Enter. Step 3: Now restart the server by running the following command. 
/etc/init.d/sshd restart
Password authentication is now enabled for SSH access to your server.

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