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      paulio
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I've recently taken over admin for a company that are using pfsense for their firewall.

      I do not know pfsense at all, and no-one there knows anything about how it was set up, & there is no documentation.
      I have root access to the server, and what I need to know is:

      How do I find out which port the web-gui was set up to listen on?
      How do I find out which users have been set up?
      How do I change their passwords?

      I'm assuming that one of the users will be 'admin', but again there is no record of what the password is.

      Can anyone help here please?  :'(

      Many thanks,
      Paul.

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        podilarius
        last edited by

        The root password and the admin password are the same. Any normal BSD/*nix commands work. For webgui access, probably on port 80 or 443. Try netstat -nap tcp and see what is listening.

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          paulio
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          @podilarius

          Many thanks - I'll give it a try.  I'd tried 80, 8080, and a few others. I was hoping that the port would be written in a config file somewhere.

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            podilarius
            last edited by

            it is written in /cf/conf/config.xml. I would try port 443 (https) also, if you haven't already.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              This will show you for sure the ports that the web service is listening on:

              sockstat | grep lighttpd
              

              Though as others have mentioned it may also be in /conf/config.xml

              You can also check in /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf like so:

              # grep server\.port /var/etc/lighty-webConfigurator.conf
              server.port                = 443
              

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