Enable Password Login for SSH on Amazon Linux AMI

Solution 1:

You need to change the config file for the ssh server and restart the server.

alter /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

PasswordAuthentication yes

then restart the ssh server:

/etc/init.d/sshd restart

Solution 2:

Enable password authentication and delete delete authorized_keys:

# rm /home/ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys