Is it possible to disable scp and sftp and have only SSH access?

[Upon]

I'm a linux administrator and I don't want people to download files stored on my server. However, users can login to the server via ssh to work on it. I don't know how to solve this problem. Please help me.

 

[Condobloke]

G'day Upon, Welcome to Linux.org

I'm a linux administrator

you are an admin.....on which site ?

 

[dos2unix]

cp my_private_files* /path/to/private_directory
chown -R myuser:myuser /path/to/private_directory
chmod 700 /path/to/private_directory

But they would still be able to scp to their home directory (you can make home directories each a small disk partition, say 100k or so) and likely /tmp. You could disable swap /tmp also.
Keep in mind, if you did this, you couldn't sftp either.

You could remove this line from /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Subsystem sftp /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

But even if you did this, I could still "cat somefile" to the stdout screen output
then copy and paste that output to my local computer.

 

[f33dm3bits]

On server where users can scp to.

[email protected] ~]# which scp
/usr/bin/scp

[[email protected] ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/scp
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 105264 Oct 11 03:18 /usr/bin/scp
[[email protected] ~]# chmod 700 /usr/bin/scp

[[email protected] ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/scp
-rwx------. 1 root root 105264 Oct 11 03:18 /usr/bin/scp

From client trying to scp to server.

scp testfile [email protected]:
[email protected]'s password:
bash: /usr/bin/scp: Permission denied
lost connection

ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
Last login: Tue Feb 22 17:54:40 2022

sftp [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
Connected to lx-rocky.
sftp> put testfile
Uploading copyfile to /home/tux/testfile
copyfile                      100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00

ssh to system where scp is disabled and check home directory.

ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
Last login: Mon Feb 28 08:42:39 2022 from 11.22.13.1
[[email protected] ~]$ ls -l ~/testyfile
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 tux tux 0 Feb 28 08:41 testfile

 

[KGIII]

you are an admin.....on which site ?

To be fair, I'm pretty sure we're all Linux admins.