EX2200 password recovery

Enter configuration mode in the CLI:
user@switch> cli
Set the root password. For example:,
user@switch# set system root-authentication plain-text-password


whoops...Anyway, it's here: and you may need to have a (free) Juniper account set up to get to it. I have a J-TAC account due to work.


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



Jist of it is, you power the device on, hit the spacebar when you get this prompt:

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

Then, once it gets to this prompt: loader>, you type boot -s, which starts it in single user mode

Then, you will get this prompt:

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

Then, in my case, it went to a normal, non-configure prompt, where I moved to configure mode, and then set a new system, plain text password:

user@switch# set system root-authentication plain-text-password

Then, obviously, commit and reboot.