Re: Recovery mode on Juniper M7i

[Pedro Cavaca <pmsac.nanog () gmail com>]

Maybe you're not doing anything wrong and someone tweaked the routers and
marked the console as insecure, a previous owner maybe?

http://superuser.com/questions/85536/securing-freebsd-in-single-user-mode

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&sektion=8

HTH.


On 6 November 2013 21:11, Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
>
> Greetings of the day.
>
>
> I am kind of (badly) stuck with multiple routers and not able to recover
> the root password. It's Juniper M7i. I have followed the Juniper support
> page as given here -
>
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos/topics/task/configuration/authentication-root-password-recovering.htmland
> strange enough that it worked with one of routers I have but failed on
> rest all.
>
>
> I am getting stuck on Step #12. As I give "boot -s" to get into single user
> mode of BSD, system next asks me for root password and hence I am out of
> luck to get into "recovery mode". I tried pressing enter on that prompt as
> well but no luck. I am connecting to router via console and do have
> physical access to router(s).
>
>
> Was wondering if someone has seen similar issues and could guide on what I
> am doing wrong? Most of other help pages I have seen on net have same exact
> steps as given on that page.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
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