[166748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recovery mode on Juniper M7i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rakesh M)
Wed Nov 6 16:48:48 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0+aXZKQ8L0P9sf1ikv9suDCipaJv3NFr7jLYSNXDLs0JP37w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 03:03:12 +0530
From: Rakesh M <raaki.88@gmail.com>
To: Anurag Bhatia <me@anuragbhatia.com>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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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@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
>
> Greetings of the day.
>
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> 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.
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> Thanks.
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>
> Anurag Bhatia
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>
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