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I have a Juniper EX4200 series 8PoE that was donated to me as a lab asset. The problem is tha it has a configuration on it and i have no usernames/passwords. When i go through the password recovery process this is what happens:

Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

/kernel data=0x8e55b8+0x950d0 syms= [0x4+0x7aab0+0x4+0xae2b8]

Hit  [Enter] to bbot immediately. or space bar for command prompt.

Type '?' for list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.

loader> boot -s

Then it continues to boot but then i get the following:

System watchdog timer disabled

Enter root password, or  ^D to go multi-user

password:

Once i press the return key it continues the boot process, never takes me to CLI ust finishes booting and ends up at a hostname and login prompt.

Is there any way to break into this device to clear the configuration so i can use it? Please help and thank you for any assistance that you can provide.

Stan

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB14102&smlogin=true

It looks like you might have missed the step where you type "recovery" at the prompt (after boot -s to boot into single-user mode)?

ronf,

I agree but that's the issue it doesn't even give me the option for this step:

Enter full path name of shell or 'recovery' for root password recovery or RETURN for /bin/sh: recovery

It goes straight to the propmt of asking for the root password so i never get to type recovery. Any suggestions? Thanks for the reply.

Stan

Why don't you do an installation and format the filesystem in the same time?

I know it's not what you are looking for, but it will save some time.

This in the case that you don't need the configuration present already.

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parau@juniper.net

No i don't need the configuration that's currently on there, do you have a link to the process that you are referring to?

Thank you for your assistance.

Stan

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB20643

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And what if the need is to keep the configuration?

ocbroadband,

You can use single user mode from the console port to do a root password recovery following this kb article.  This does require you power off the switch and have physical access to the serial console port for the operation.

https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB14102

Note that this doesn't work for a stack. You have to seperate the master from the stack and update the master individually.