Those who claim to interpret scriptures "literally" will otherwise propose this means to "accept the plain meaning" of the text, rather than seeking a symbolic, allegoric, or otherwise subtle hidden meaning.

Of course the "plain meaning" itself can be subjective, causing differences in interpretation based on the "literal" approach.

What does it mean to interpret the Bible literally?
I'm trying to allow ssh access from a remote RHEL server to a local RHEL box via Win/Putty gateway. Basically, I'd like to be able to do 'ssh localhost -p 512' on a remote server so that it would connect to the RHEL server in the local network. The local network is beyond a firewall so I can connect from my Win PC to the remote server with Putty/ssh but not vice verse.

LclSrv----WinXP/Putty-----||-----RmtSrv

So, I've added the following tunneling settings to the current RmtSrv session in Putty (actually I use Kitty but doesn't matter):

R512 LclSrv:22

I expect that this would create a process on the remote server that listens port 512 and transfers the connections to a local network/LclSrv port 22.

After pressing start button, Putty opens a regular ssh terminal session successfully but nothing happens. (options show active port forwarding). I've checked with netstat -l that port 512 is not listening on RmtSrv. ssh on this port returns 'connection refused'. What am I doing wrong? May be there is something in the sshd_config that needs to be changed in order to allow the tunneling? Could it be user privileges on RmtSrv that prevents me from creating tunnels? I have sudo btw.

Cheers, Vlad.
