Recovery mode on Juniper M7i

Wed Nov 6 21:59:27 UTC 2013

Direct access to the bootstrap loader should bypass any access 
restrictions configured on the box.  However, it sounds like the device 
is not dropping into single-user mode.

I would suggest removing and wiping the CF card.  Then boot from 
alternative media (USB) and snapshot on to the blank card.

Cheers,
Jeff

On 11/6/2013 3:28 PM, Pedro Cavaca wrote:
> 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 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.
>> --
>>
>>
>> Anurag Bhatia
>> anuragbhatia.com
>>
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>>

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Jeff Sorrels
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