Jun 172012
When setting up port forwarding to a web server, request were failing and command line returned:
channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
There were no firewalls blocking requests and curl just replied with “curl: (52) Empty reply from server”
After reestablishing ssh with -v as argument, the message came a bit clearer:
debug1: channel 3: new [direct-tcpip] channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed debug1: channel 3: free: direct-tcpip: listening port 8000 for 192.168.33.7 port 80, connect from 127.0.0.1 port 38887, nchannels 4
Looking into sshd man page and checking sshd options, showed the potential issue straight away:
AllowTcpForwarding no
After setting above to yes and a sshd reload all worked smoothly.
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