Reset Plesk Admin Password With Shell

[66carolin]

I forget my plesk admin password. I want to reset my password from shell. Can I do that?

[WebMaster]

Yes, you can do that.
You have to follow the following steps.

./ch_admin_passwd is Plesk’s utility to set the admin password.
“Gets password from the environment variable PSA_PASSWORD
Password should be from 5 to 16 symbols and should not contain login name, whitespace, quotes or national characters”
[root@ServerMonkey bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD=’newpass’
[root@ServerMonkey bin]# echo $PSA_PASSWORD
newpass
[root@ServerMonkey bin]# ./ch_admin_passwd
[root@ServerMonkey bin]# export PSA_PASSWORD=
[root@ServerMonkey bin]# cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow
newpass
[root@ServerMonkey bin]#