How to get/reset lost Plesk Administrator password in Plesk for Linux

Question

A password of the Plesk “admin” user is lost.

How to get/reset it?

Answer

Connect to a Plesk server via SSH and use the instructions below.

• Logging in to Plesk without the password

  Use a one-time login link to log in to Plesk without a password. To generate the one-time login link:

  1. Run the following command to generate two links: One – to access Plesk by its hostname, another – by server IP address:

     # plesk login

     Note: If a server hostname is not resolvable from the Internet, hostname link will not be generated.

  2. Copy one of the generated links and open it in a web-browser. Once logged in, go to the Change Password page (or My Profile) to set a new password.

• Resetting the password

  Run the command below replacing ***** with your new password and keeping ‘ ‘ on the sides:

  # plesk bin admin –set-admin-password -passwd ‘*****’

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