Can't get to the root on juniper ssg5

Question

Can't get to the root on juniper ssg5

After i enter my login username and password I'm stuck on this prompt

'my-fw->'


my-fw-> copy
 ^------unknown keyword copy
my-fw-> show
 ^------unknown keyword show
my-fw-> configure
^-----------unknown keyword configure

why can't i get to root@my-fw-> or root@my-fw-# prompt. What can i do to get to root. I'm using putty to console to the juniper ssg5.

[Note- I'm trying to backup config to a tftp server where i require to get to the root access]

Answer 1

You don't need root access. root is an special account and all / most of the commands works without root account. Any account which has privileges to perform configuration changes, can apply the command to archive the configuration on given site. See junos-os-login-classes-overview for user privileges.

The prompt we get is in this format: user@hostname> Ref

If there is no hostname defined, then it is just: user> Once you make sure that you have logged in with correct user, i.e. it has requirement permissions, you should be able to execute those commands and apply archival configuration.

I have a working solution, let me know if above doesn't help.