RE: Summary: Problem to enable port forwarding

[Roeland Meyer]

> Port 22 (and all ports < 1024) are priviledged: only root can 
> listen on
> them. Unless your tunnel ssh is entering HostB as root the sshd at the
> far end will not be able to open port 22 for listening, thus the
> behaviour you see. Just use port 2222 or suchlike at the far 
> end. Works
> for me.

Why wouldn't root, on the far end, not set up SSHD as root? It'd be a bunch
more efficient than letting users set up individual SSHDs.