Password Recovery for Juniper EX Series Switches
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- See Juniper Knowledge Base: https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB14102
For the impatient:
- Connect to the switche's console and power-cycle the switch
- Hit [SPACE] immediately when this message appears
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or space bar for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 1 second...
- At the
loader>prompte, typeboot -s - At the next prompt, type
recovery - At the next prompt, enter config mode by typing
configure - Now, set root password to Cisco123 through the following command:
set system root-authentication plain-text-password
- Save changes by typing
commit - Exit config mode and operational mode by issueing the
exitcommand twice - Confirm reboot with
y
Info:
- This procedure might also work for MX series routers (e.g. MX104)
- If you get a message saiyng that the file system is corrupt/damaged, load a shell with the shell command and repair the file system with the fsck command. Answer all questions with y.
