[CentOS] Re: SSH remote port forward

Tue Jun 12 22:01:03 UTC 2007
Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk>

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.

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

Don't forget "service sshd restart" after making the change.

Cheers
Tony
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