Is it possible to disable SSH login and allow scp in RHEL 6?

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Issue

  • I need to implement scp and sftp in chrooted environment but we need to disable SSH login completely. How to achieve this?
  • Can you disable SSH but allow SCP and or SFTP?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5

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