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So out of the box a lot of equipment has a set of standard default passwords, you can usually get them from the company's own manuals or websites
A lot of people also never bother setting up their own passwords, so a lot of these devices are insecure.
If you are walking around a place, and see they offer free wifi, you can connect and the landing page usually gives you an idea of the manufacturer of their equipment. You look up the manuals and it will tell you the default IP address and login passwords for the management console. Try them. If they work, congrats you are a hacker and technically a criminal (so don't do this at all ever even in minecraft)
If the site is REALLY STUPID none of these have changed, and from any web browser you can do anything you want to the network. You'll need to learn how those kinds of devices work because the UIs aren't designed for ease but you can still navigate them from a phone.
Unify is the most common midgrade equipment used by small to medium sites, and even as part of larger networks for campus style mesh networks but it's unlikely a team with the skill to set that up would leave default passwords on