how to turn off password-less login for ssh?

I had setup password-less SSH login from my desktop to my laptop following the steps here. Now I want to turn off the password-less login so that when I ssh from my desktop to my laptop, it will ask for the password. How do I do it?

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Disable pubkey authentication on the client where you don't want to use it.

ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no your_host

or in your ~/.ssh/config:

Host your_host PubkeyAuthentication no

If you want to remove the public key from the server, you need to remove the appropriate line from ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on server.

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ssh -o PubkeyAuthentication=no your_host

can easily be reverted by anyone who has access to the client to login to your laptob without needing a password at all, it may be a better choice to use a password encrypted private-key for those destinations, where you want to be asked for a password before login.

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