Recover Plesk Admin Password

POSTED AT 12:31 on 29th July 2008

A lot of hosting providers offer Plesk as a control panel to manage your server. I always seem to forget the stupid passwords that they provide. Here’s how you can recover your forgotten Plesk passwords.

Windows
1) Access your server with admin privileges (either remotely through Remote Desktop or in person)
2) Open the command prompt (Start > Run > ‘cmd’)
3) Run the following:

“C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\admin\bin\plesksrvclient.exe” –get

If Plesk is installed elsewhere then change the path.

A dialogue box will appear with the Plesk admin password.

Linux
1) Access your server through SSH.
2) Run the following:

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

Again you must have root privileges.