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why?

• yosamino 5y ago
  Because in the most common use-case it allows for the the same functionality as PasswordAuthentication, so if you want to disallow password-based logins, it also has to go. Note that newer openssh version (don't remember how new) renamed this to KbdInteractiveAuthentication. So check your documentation, and double-check everything you read on the internet. This article is from 2013 after all.