Cloud-Init keeps setting PasswordAuthentication to no even with ssh_pwauth set to true.
Issue
- cloud-init is disabling SSH password authentication even though it's configured not to.
- /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg contains "ssh_pwauth: yes", but PasswordAuthentication is still set to no.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- cloud-init
- Guest on Microsoft Azure
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