HOWTO: Access pfSense filesystems remotely with scp

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Accessing pfSense with scp

You can transfer files to and from a pfSense system with scp, which is part of the functionality that comes with having ssh access enabled (See HOWTO enable SSH access).

When connecting with an scp client such as from a FreeBSD/Linux command line, with WinSCP, FileZilla, or even a fish URL in Konquerer, you must do so as the "root" user, which has the same password as the admin user but is not locked into the menu for its shell.

An example: Logged into a FreeBSD machine, I want to get a copy of a file in /tmp:

myuser@somebox:~/$ scp root@192.168.1.1:/tmp/lan-traffic.rrd-4h.png .