How to change a database user password in Plesk

Dmitry Bystrov

10 months ago

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How to change a database user password in Plesk?

Changing a database user password via Plesk

Log in to Plesk.
Go to Domains > example.com > Databases > User Management > john_doe.
Specify a new password and click OK.

Changing a database user password via a command-line interface

Connect to the Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).
Use the 'plesk bin database' command to change the password (on Windows Server, use a command prompt as an Administartor).

In the example below, we are changing the password for the database user john_doe which is hosted on the local MySQL server:

# plesk bin database --update-dbuser john_doe -passwd "new_password_here" -server localhost:3306

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