Wednesday, March 5, 2008

How to Retrieve Your Plesk Admin Password

If you have forgotten your Plesk password, it can be retrieved with the following command via SSH:

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

Please note that it is imperative for security reasons this file maintains the 0600 file permissions, so you will need to be "root" in order to view the contents of this file. This is also the "admin" login to the MySQL database service, and the contents of this file must always match the "admin" login to MySQL to ensure proper Plesk operation.

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