David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes:
> and on the ssh'd terminal tunnel session:
> --------
> $ channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
> -------
Perhaps a firewalling problem? Look at your kernel packet filtering
setup ... it's not uncommon for even local-loopback traffic to be
aggressively filtered by default, and none of the people who set these
things up think port 5432 is a standard service :-(
regards, tom lane