Recovery mode on Juniper M7i

Rakesh M raaki.88 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 21:33:12 UTC 2013


Can you paste in the output after  'boot -s' , I came across several issues
while recovering Root Password, But never faced this :)


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Anurag Bhatia <me at 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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>
> Anurag Bhatia
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