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Recovering Your Parallels Plesk Panel Password on a Linux Server

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Last Updated: June 21, 2011 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

  1. Using SSH, log in to your server with the User ID and Password that you created when you set up your dedicated hosting account.
  2. At the command line, type su -.
  3. For your password, use the same password that you use with your User ID.
  4. 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.