Recovery mode on Juniper M7i

Thu Nov 14 01:31:20 UTC 2013

I was able to access routers by flashing 1st router's image on remaining.

Issue with other three as to best extent I can guess was that someone
enabled root password in single user mode and so there was no way around to
get to recovery console.

Thanks everyone for useful replies.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jeff Sorrels <jlsorrels at kanren.net> wrote:

> 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.
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>>>
>>>
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>>>
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> --
> Jeff Sorrels
> Network Administrator
> KanREN, Inc
> jlsorrels at kanren.net
> 785-856-9820, #2
>
>

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