Recovering Your Parallels Plesk Panel Password on a Linux Server
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June 21, 2017 2:31 PM
If you forget your Parallels Plesk Panel password, you can recover it on your Linux dedicated server.
To Recover Your Parallels Plesk Panel Password on a Linux Server
- Using SSH, log in to your server with the User ID and Password that you created when you set up your dedicated hosting account.
- At the command line, type
su -. - For your password, use the same password that you use with your User ID.
- Enter the following command:
cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow
This file contains your admin Parallels Plesk Panel password.
Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2, however, encrypts this file. To view the encrypted file, use the following command:
/usr/local/psa/bin/admin --show-password
This does not affect MySQL Command Line Interface's access to the /etc/psa/.psa.shadow file.
