Type your comment> @he77kat said:
Just a follow up to this, I checked the htb discord and found that htb no longer allows users to use port 22 to ssh from target machines to their locals due to security concerns. Not specific to this box, but this definitely solved my issue
I came here to say exactly this^
I just spent 3 days banging my head against this since my local VM worked fine but the same command on HTB would fail.
If you are trying to use p*****.*** and are trying to port-forward, do not use port 22 since the connection will be dropped.