How to disable SCP protocol

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Issue

By default in RHEL 9, the scp command will use the SFTP protocol instead of the SCP protocol. However it is still possible to use the SCP protocol using the -O option. Moreover the sshd service will allow connection of clients using the SCP protocol.

How to disable the SCP protocol completely?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

or

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10
  • openssh >= 8.0p1-24.el8

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