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@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/authen... 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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-- Jeff Sorrels Network Administrator KanREN, Inc jlsorrels@kanren.net 785-856-9820, #2