Subject: Cannot access Greenbone web UI at port 9392 — Community Edition on Ubuntu 24 LTS

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Subject: Cannot access Greenbone web UI at port 9392 via SSH tunnel — Community Edition on Ubuntu 24 LTS

Hi all,

I’ve been trying to access the Greenbone web UI remotely and could use some guidance from the community.

Environment:

  • Greenbone Community Edition (GVM) installed via apt on Ubuntu 24 LTS

  • Single server setup (no agents)

  • Server is behind NAT/firewall — accessed remotely via SSH

  • gvm-start runs successfully: “GVM services are already running”

  • PostgreSQL backend is running, scan data is accessible via direct DB queries

Problem: Cannot access the Greenbone web UI at https://localhost:9392 from my workstation. Attempted SSH tunnel:

ssh -L 9392:localhost:9392 oba@mail.astropema.ai

Tunnel connects but browser cannot reach the UI.

What we’ve found: gsad is binding to the LAN IP, not localhost:

LISTEN 0  4096  192.168.0.85:9392  0.0.0.0:*  users:(("gsad",pid=2208386,fd=11))

Tried tunneling to the LAN IP directly:

ssh -L 9392:192.168.0.85:9392 oba@mail.astropema.ai

Tunnel establishes but browser still cannot reach https://localhost:9392.

Question: What is the correct way to configure gsad for remote access via SSH tunnel on a Community Edition install? Is there a gsad config option to control the bind address, or is there a recommended workaround for remote access without the GOS appliance?

Thanks in advance.

Oba
astropema.ai

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Hello,

and welcome to this community forums.

Please see the existing thread Setup on Ubuntu 22.10 - URL NOT FOUND and the current state of that 3rd party Ubuntu packages (not provided by Greenbone):

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Thanks !

That seems to confirm what we hit. The Ubuntu noble package ships gsad (the daemon) but not gsa (the actual React frontend). They’re two separate components and gsa was never packaged for Ubuntu 24.04.