title: Password authentication is not working in ssh on windows
body: <p>I tried to install windows OpenSSH Server feature also tried to manually install OpenSSH in C:/Program Files/OpenSSH but for both when i try to connect it ask for password I enter correct but it says Permission denied always. It was working fine but after some time started to face this issue.  I tried to manually run the sshd server with -d option and it gives the following logs</p>
  <pre><code>debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.9p1 Debian-10+deb10u2
  debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.9p1 Debian-10+deb10u2 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000
  debug1: list_hostkey_types: rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519 [preauth]
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent [preauth]
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received [preauth]
  debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 [preauth]
  debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 [preauth]
  debug1: kex: client-&gt;server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: &lt;implicit&gt; compression: none [preauth]
  debug1: kex: server-&gt;client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com MAC: &lt;implicit&gt; compression: none [preauth]
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT [preauth]
  debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks [preauth]
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent [preauth]
  debug1: Sending SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO [preauth]
  debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS [preauth]
  debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received [preauth]
  debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks [preauth]
  debug1: KEX done [preauth]
  debug1: userauth-request for user aawais@domain service ssh-connection method none [preauth]
  debug1: attempt 0 failures 0 [preauth]
  debug1: user domain\\aawais matched group list administrators at line 84
  User domain\\aawais not allowed because shell c:\\program files\\powershell\\7\\pwsh.exe does not exist
  debug1: userauth-request for user aawais@domain service ssh-connection method keyboard-interactive [preauth]
  debug1: attempt 1 failures 0 [preauth]
  debug1: keyboard-interactive devs  [preauth]
  debug1: auth2_challenge: user=aawais@domain devs= [preauth]
  debug1: kbdint_alloc: devices '' [preauth]
  debug1: userauth-request for user aawais@domain service ssh-connection method password [preauth]
  debug1: attempt 2 failures 1 [preauth]
  debug1: Windows authentication failed for user: NOUSER domain: . error: 1326 
  </code></pre>
  <p>and following is my sshd_config file</p>
  <pre><code># This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See
  # sshd_config(5) for more information.
  
  # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with
  # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where
  # possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options override the
  # default value.
  
  #Port 22
  #AddressFamily any
  #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
  #ListenAddress ::
  
  #HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
  #HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
  #HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
  #HostKey __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
  
  # Ciphers and keying
  #RekeyLimit default none
  
  # Logging
  SyslogFacility AUTH
  LogLevel INFO
  
  # Authentication:
  
  #LoginGraceTime 2m
  PermitRootLogin yes
  #StrictModes yes
  MaxAuthTries 600
  #MaxSessions 10
  
  PubkeyAuthentication yes
  
  # The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2
  # but this is overridden so installations will only check .ssh/authorized_keys
  AuthorizedKeysFile  .ssh/authorized_keys
  
  #AuthorizedPrincipalsFile none
  
  # For this to work you will also need host keys in %programData%/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
  #HostbasedAuthentication no
  # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for
  # HostbasedAuthentication
  #IgnoreUserKnownHosts no
  # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files
  #IgnoreRhosts yes
  
  # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
  PasswordAuthentication yes
  #PermitEmptyPasswords no
  
  #AllowAgentForwarding yes
  #AllowTcpForwarding yes
  #GatewayPorts no
  #PermitTTY yes
  #PrintMotd yes
  #PrintLastLog yes
  #TCPKeepAlive yes
  #UseLogin no
  #PermitUserEnvironment no
  #ClientAliveInterval 0
  #ClientAliveCountMax 3
  #UseDNS no
  #PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid
  #MaxStartups 10:30:100
  #PermitTunnel no
  #ChrootDirectory none
  #VersionAddendum none
  
  # no default banner path
  #Banner none
  
  # override default of no subsystems
  Subsystem   sftp    sftp-server.exe
  
  # Example of overriding settings on a per-user basis
  #Match User anoncvs
  #   AllowTcpForwarding no
  #   PermitTTY no
  #   ForceCommand cvs server
  
  Match Group administrators
         AuthorizedKeysFile __PROGRAMDATA__/ssh/administrators_authorized_keys
  
  
  </code></pre>
  <p>What might be the cause of this problem?</p>