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...abled some local port forwarding for my webserver (backupPC has a decent CGI for the tech literate users). Works great, thanks to all who made that possible! I wanted to allow the rsync connection to be initiated from a box attached to the sshd host, this would mean using ssh -R client-side. With TCPforwarding on in sshd_config the client can forward any remote (server) port. If, however, TCPforwarding is off in sshd_config even if I use permitopen in authorized_keys I cannot forward any remote ports. I was wondering if having remote ports be allowed through permitopen was a good idea, then concluded th...