User id for the forwarder ports

[Peter Stuge]

Damien Miller wrote:
> > Can a TCP server (running on the same host as the OpenSSH server) know
> > the user id/name of a user forwarding an TCP port ?
> 
> No; there are a number of impediments to implementing it.
> 
> The SSH protocol doesn't support sending this information.

The original question was about the server-side username. I guess the
solution is platform-specific.


//Peter