Just happened to read something interesting on Reddit about Sophos's effort to differentiate the (free) Home version versus the Business version of Sophos XG starting from v19:
Did Sophos discuss or write anything about this in any posts or changelogs…
How do I grant this access to accounts OTHER than the ADMIN local account?
Other local administrator accounts have been created (not tied to AD/LDAP) - they have been granted an Administrator profile:
However, I cannot find any way to grant the…
Hello,
how to give a name (ex: mysophos.fw) to sophos XG firewall and use that name to access firewall from WAN instead of using WAN IP x.x.x.x:4444 ?
regards
Anand
Hi all,
firewall already uses a wildcard cert for WAF, I tried to set it up for "Admin console and end-user interaction" as it is called in the Admin settings. Applying the cert resultet in not being able to reach the Webadmin and Userportal, neither…
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I want to know as to how to access XG after disabling WAN HTTPs. If I want to access remotely and I do not have VPN likewise how can I access it on WAN using HTTPs.
Is there any way out to be secure and access it over WAN ?
I can login to XG with my administrator account (which uses AD and DUO 2FA) but recently had an issue where I needed to use the admin account and found it didn't work. I don't usually use admin login so I'm not sure when this broke.
The password is…
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Since, for some reason, I'm not being able to access my Sophos XGS appliance trough a webadmin or ssh conection, I'm trying to access the device with a serial connection with a console cable.
I've followed this procediture:
https://support…
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We have a Sophos XGS appliance. After a reboot it has been stuck showing this message with a blue background on the browser everytime I try to access to the web admin console:
"Firewall is starting. Please stand by while the system finishes loading…
Hello, how can I change my admin password if I still have access to central and don't know the old password due to some cut & paste issues?
Regards BeEf
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This is the ACL matrix of Sophos XG v18 firewall system.
Would you please explain to me in more details about the rows and columns of this ? I would like to know more in partiular about the SSL VPN column :
If I uncheck the SSL…
Hello everyone,
How can I change the SSH port number on Sophos XG (Home) v18 ? This has been a much debated feature request for some time now. Has it been implemented yet ? If so, how to do it ?
Thank you in advance.
I have connected the XG to the domain and my domain user can log into the user portal fine. When I try to log into the admin portal I get " User XXXXX failed to login to Web Admin Console because of wrong credentials "
I have made sure the user is set…
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I am using the 192.168.x.y/24 subnet in my Sophos XG Firewall v18 for my network. I have set up multiple VLAN interfaces on it with different values of x and y. But every time I type in the gateway address of each respective VLAN interface…
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we have SG330 (SFOS 18.5.2 MR-2-Build380 ) , and we discover that we can access the firewall with broadcast address, how we can desactivate it .
any help
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I’ve got a serious problem, I did configure my Sophos xg as normal (LAN, WAN, Rules, Services) everything worked fluently, today I tested some NAT routing and I apply it suddenly I can’t access to my Sophos XG from LAN or WAN,.
Please if you…
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I had mistakenly disabled MFA for super admin, after that I cannot log in with the admin account on the web portal. but I am able to log in CLI mode. Please find below.
I sync the authenticator and it says "timeoffset successfully retrieved" but…
I enabled the Local service ACL exception rule. Some how, I didn't get that right. Now im locked out from Web interface. The SSH is still working.
How can i disable this ACL from command line/SSH? I tried:
console> system appliance_access show Appliance…
Is there an workaround to use FQDN-Host Objects as a source for ACL exception rule on Device access?
I used "DNS Host" Objects back in Sophos SG/UTM to limit WebAdmin Access by keeping flexibility of centrally changing DNS-Entrys.
How to do this…
In the last couple days I've been trying to give admin access to some users to manage Sophos firewalls via WAN accross multiple sites. However, I have to manually set the user type as "Administrator".
Manually setting 10 users or more accross more than…
Hi, The device XG86 I believe was blue and hang when i received this device.
Currently, I am tryna access and reset to default but it couldn't be turned on even after plugging in and out. Its constant on red colour.
No matter I plug in the power,…
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Have recently upgraded several Sophos XG units to V18.5.380 (MR2).
On all my units I have the Admin page available on the WAN, and it is using a different port than the standard 4444
On the units which have a valid X-Stream Protect License…
From the V19 EAP 'What's New' file - "Advanced Shell – With the addition of many comprehensive logging enhancements in the GUI, and in-line with industry best-practices, access to the Advance Shell will be restricted to licensed commercial versions of…
I have setup the SFOS virtual appliance on MS Hyper-V, all is fine but stuck at password authentication. The default administrator password 'admin' is not working.
Hello all,
I did something incredibly stupid, i activated a erroneous NAT rul and i locked myself out. Is there anyway i can undo this form the console?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.