How to make sure that password authentication is disabled on SSH

After I have disabled password authentication on SSH, I want to attempt to connect with password authentication so that I confirm that password authentication is certainly disabled.

With -o option set PreferredAuthentications to password.

$ ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password xxxx@example.com
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).

If you see "Permission denied", it's OK.

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