Login to Heroku CLI on VPS/Remote VM

step 1 - Create a ssh tunnel to that VPS / Remote VM

ssh -f -N -D 1080 \
    -o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
    -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
    -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes \
    user@xxx.yyy.zzz.xxx

step 2 Tell your web browser to use that, Tunel

  google-chrome \
    --user-data-dir="$HOME/.config/google-chrome-vps" \
    --proxy-server="socks5://localhost:1080" \
    --host-resolver-rules="MAP * ~NOTFOUND , EXCLUDE localhost"

note: This will start a new session from a new profile

step 3 Login to Heroku account from this Chrome browser instance

step 4: On the VPS/VM run heroku login

Copy the URL for logging in the browser. Paste it into the browser session we created earlier, now I should be logged in