SSH: "open failed: administratively prohibited"
17 Nov 2008 07:53
Apparently, you can get this error for a number of reasons . The obvious one is that you don’t have AllowTCPForwarding set in your sshd_config. A less obvious but probably more common one—which bit me earlier today, which is why I write this—is that you’ve misspelled a host name. To wit, this:
ssh example.com -L8000:locahost:80
…is not the same as:
ssh example.com -L8000:localhost:80
(Discussing this with my colleagues prompted a joke about living “La Vida Local.” Finally, a Ricky Martin song for shut-ins.)
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