Thursday 3 May 2012

Retrieve Plesk Admin Pass Windows server

How can Plesk admin password be retrieved?

To Retrieve Plesk Admin Pass Windows server, follow the simple steps below


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Apart from the password reminder available on the login screen, you can use the plesksrvclient.exe utility located in %plesk_bin% folder to set up a new password or retrieve the old one.

You could set the new passsword by running the following command:
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -set <new_password> true

You could also get the current password by running this utility with:
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -get

To retrieve password in command line you can use -nogui option:

E.g.
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -get -nogui > plesk_password.txt

After that you can see retrieved Plesk password in plesk_password.txt file. 

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