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From 3ed08c2dbe46cf084b4865a5029b79fddcdcd780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:20:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] p2v: Mention sshd_config setting in the manual page.

The precise sshd configuration has confused some users of virt-p2v.
Only one setting (AllowTcpForwarding=yes) is required, so document it.

(cherry picked from commit 1b52139339caaf8cdc347f05b559128b08fcee39)
---
 p2v/virt-p2v.pod | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/p2v/virt-p2v.pod b/p2v/virt-p2v.pod
index 6e7a77d..1ff1130 100644
--- a/p2v/virt-p2v.pod
+++ b/p2v/virt-p2v.pod
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ during the conversion process.
 
 The reverse port forwarding feature of ssh (ie. C<ssh -R>) is required
 by virt-p2v, and it will not work if this is disabled on the
-conversion server.
+conversion server.  (C<AllowTcpForwarding> must be C<yes> in the
+L<sshd_config(5)> file on the conversion server).
 
 The conversion server does not need to be a physical machine.  It
 could be a virtual machine, as long as it has sufficient memory and
@@ -586,6 +587,8 @@ L<virt-p2v-make-kickstart(1)>,
 L<virt-v2v(1)>,
 L<qemu-nbd(1)>,
 L<ssh(1)>,
+L<sshd(8)>,
+L<sshd_config(5)>,
 L<http://libguestfs.org/>.
 
 =head1 AUTHORS
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