# Separate/multiple API/GUI ports and authentication

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/separate-multiple-api-gui-ports-and-authentication/5800
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 30, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/separate-multiple-api-gui-ports-and-authentication/5800 "2015-09-30T15:05:28Z")
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### Author: ![canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/canton7/32/9528_2.png) [@canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/canton7)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/separate-multiple-api-gui-ports-and-authentication/5800/12 "2015-09-30T13:18:13Z")

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> [@Syncthing Management Platform](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-management-platform/5792/25):
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> but she is able to run syncthing on her home devices…

…and Syncthing will listen on 127.0.0.1, and no-one else will be able to connect to it. Therefore she won’t need a password. Therefore everything is fine.

It is **ONLY** when you want to connect to Syncthing from **another** machine that you need to mess around with passwords, and ‘emily b. from a.’ won’t be doing this, so this entire discussion is completely irrelevant for her.

> [@Syncthing Management Platform](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-management-platform/5792/25):
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> yes sure but why “opening” the Gui if I only need the api and vice versa?

That’s not English, and I don’t understand it.

> [@Syncthing Management Platform](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-management-platform/5792/25):
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> also remote devices?

You misunderstand. With SyncTrayor you can set a GUI password, and you’ll never have to type it into anywhere.

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