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 <m...@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 > > Linkedin <http://in.linkedin.com/in/anuragbhatia21> | > Twitter<https://twitter.com/anurag_bhatia> > Skype: anuragbhatia.com >
