Question
- The password of the Plesk admin (Administrator) user is lost. How to get or reset it?
Answer
Note: For security reasons, it is not possible to reset the Plesk Administrator user password on the Plesk login page while using the Forgot your password? option.
Use one of the solutions below:
Use a one-time login link (which contains a token) to log into Plesk without the need for a password.
To generate the one-time login link:
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(Additional step for Plesk on Windows) Start the Command Prompt as Administrator
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Run the following command to generate two links with login tokens, one to access Plesk via its hostname and another to access Plesk via its server IP address:
plesk login
Note: If a server hostname is not resolvable from the Internet, a hostname link will not be generated.
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Copy the generated link and open it in a web browser
For Linux
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Log into your server via SSH as the root user
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Execute the command below, while replacing
your_new_password
with your new password of choice and keeping" "
on the sides:# plesk bin admin --set-admin-password -passwd "your_new_password"
Note: The password you are setting should not contain quotes, spaces, "$" symbol, national characters or exclamation signs.
For Windows
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Connect to your server via RDP
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Execute the command below, while replacing
your_new_password
with your new password of choice and keeping" "
on the sides:C:> plesk bin admin --set-admin-password -passwd "your_new_password"
Note: The password you are setting should not contain quotes, spaces, "$" symbol, national characters or exclamation signs.