SSH port forwarding

[Nefarious]

I'm trying to arrange a port forward so that someone can access the SSH on the machine through port 80 (the only port for them that's not blocked)

so far I've deduced that I need to use -L but it keeps telling me I'm using a bad port specification, any help would be gratefully received

 

[DazW]

So they can only use port 80?

Seems to me you need to just make the SSH server listen on port 80.

ssh -L creates a tunnel, so say, you can goto http://localhost:8080/, and that gets forwarded, via an SSH tunnel, to the host you set the tunnel up too (effectivly sending everything via the ssh server)

 

[hybrid]

I'd say for this case just change the sshd_config file.