Enable Password Based Authentication in GCP Virtual Machine

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You can set password for existing user or create user and set password.
create user
useradd user
create password
passwd user
Update configuration file
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
to enable password based authentication.PasswordAuthentication yes
Restart the sshd service
systemctl restart sshd.service
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