[CentOS] Re: SSH remote port forward

[Ugo Bellavance]

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <f4n424$j1n$1 at sea.gmane.org>, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 	I'm trying to do a remote port forward, and the remote hosts only 
>> listens to 127.0.0.1 on the forwarded port.
> 
> You can't control that from the client end, as it could be a security risk
> for the remote installation.

Makes sense.

> If the remote host is under your control and is running sshd from OpenSSH,
> you can add the following directive to /etc/ssh/sshd_config on that system:
> 
> GatewayPorts yes
> 
> That will tell the sshd to make forwarded ports listen on 0.0.0.0 instead
> of on 127.0.0.1

Excellent, thanks for the help it now works ! :).

Ugo