Question

I want to share my answer for question in title, which I can’t find quickly.

There many topics how to disable password auth at all:

UsePam yes # it will not be used
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
PasswordAuthentication no
kbdInteractiveAutentication no

but no topics how to enable for paticular user:

Match User myuser
    PasswordAuthentication yes
    KbdInteractiveAutentication yes

Also useful command to test sshd config is:

sshd -T -C user=myuser,host=127.1,addr=127.1

Please, note that “127.1” will not work on every system, so you may need paste 127.0.0.1 here.

Answer 1

If it is not about password authentication specifically, you could force usage of pam_access.so and have your /etc/security/access.conf look like so:

+ : myuser : <ip/net here or ALL>
- : ALL : ALL