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Reset Plesk Admin Password from Shell

posted by Mark Muyskens

./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]#

Categories: Linux ,Plesk ,Shell ,Windows


2 Responses to “Reset Plesk Admin Password from Shell”

  1. matt.farmer says:
    December 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    On 1and1 this app is located in the following paths:

    ./usr/local/psa/admin/bin/ch_admin_passwd
    ./usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/ch_admin_passwd

    -Matt

  2. Mark Muyskens says:
    December 26, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    Thanks for sharing Matt!

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