"open failed: administratively prohibited" error with ssh dynamic port forwarding
Mon, 2008.10.13 - 18:42 — müzso
I just experienced the following error message, when I tried to use dynamic port fowarding with a server that I had used for the same purpose a dozen times before:
The strange thing was that I already used the given server for dynamic port forwarding without any problems. In the server's
The reason for the error message was the SOCKS proxy setup in my browser (FF 3.x): changing the SOCKS version to 5 made the problem disappear. It seems that the daemon in OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9etch2 accepts now only SOCKSv5 connections from clients. 
channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failedauth.log I've found this:Oct 13 19:36:41 myserver sshd[8584]: error: connect_to 0.0.0.1 port 80: Invalid argument
Oct 13 19:36:41 myserver sshd[8584]: error: connect_to 0.0.0.1 port 80: failed.
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Thanks!