Today tip is how to retrieve PLESK admin password. The PLESK admin password is stored in /etc/psa/.psa.shadow file and you can see it by issuing following command.

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

In PLESK root user is to manage server and admin user is to manage PLESK Control Panel with database (be remember there is no root for database in PLESK, use admin).

By Sohail Riaz

I am a First Red Hat Certified Architect - RHCA (ID # 110-082-666) from Pakistan with over 14 years industry experience in several disciplines including LINUX/UNIX System Administration, Virtualization, Network, Storage, Load Balances, HA Clusters and High Performance Computing.

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