PasswordAuthentication not taking

I have been following these instructions for the past few hours and am unable to get password authentication working.

My harddrive failed and I lost my SSH key, so I am going through the web console to try and get access back. I have done the steps below, and even restarted the service. But no matter what it doesn’t seem to take.

trying SSH with -v i get the following: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey. IS there something else with these steps that needs to happen?

In order to enable Password level authentication, you can follow these steps.

3. Type sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
4. Change PasswordAuthentication from “no” to “yes” and save the file
5. Open a terminal on your computer and type ssh username@[hostname or IP address] or if on a Windows box use PuTTY for password login making sure authentication parameters aren’t pointing to a private key
6. Login with a password
7. Type sudo nano ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
8. Paste public key text here and save the file
9. Type sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
10. Change PasswordAuthentication from “yes” to “no” and save the file
11. Restart the ssh service: sudo systemctl restart sshd