there is a window between user being created and ssh_pwauth being honoured

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as [LP: #1808072](https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1808072)

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date_created = 2018-12-12T00:39:14.799617+00:00

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id = 1808072

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owner = mwhudson

owner_name = Michael Hudson-Doyle

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_Launchpad user **Michael Hudson-Doyle(mwhudson)** wrote on 2018-12-12T00:39:14.799617+00:00_

I booted an instance locally and managed to log in over ssh using a password despite ssh_pwauth being false. Turns out that this was because the user was created around two minutes before sshd_config was updated.