Disabling public key authentication in sftp

I just had an issue trying to sftp into a 3rd party vendor server using a user name and password. It worked fine with Filezilla, but from the command line I got:

Received disconnect from A.B.C.D: 11:

Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

(A.B.C.D denotes the IP address of the sftp server)

I then ran sftp in verbose mode (-v) and got:

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent

debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey

debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/mylocaluser/.ssh/id_rsa

Received disconnect from A.B.C.D: 11:

Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

This made me realize that the sftp server is configured to accept password authentication only. I inspected the man page for sftp and googled around a bit to figure out how to disable public key authentication and I found a way that works:

sftp -oPubkeyAuthentication=no remoteuser@sftpserver