How to retrieve Plesk admin password on Windows
Article ID: 473
Created On: Oct 6, 2008
Last Review: Aug 13, 2013
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APPLIES TO:
- Parallels Plesk Panel 11.x for Windows
- Parallels Plesk Panel 10.x for Windows
- Parallels Plesk Panel 9.x for Windows
- Parallels Plesk Panel 8.x for Windows
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Apart from the password reminder available on the login screen, you can use the plesksrvclient.exe utility located in the %plesk_bin% folder to set up a new password or retrieve the old one.You can set up a new password by running the following command:
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -set <new_password> trueYou can also retrieve the current password by running this utility with:
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -getTo retrieve the password in the command line, you can use -nogui option:
"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -get -nogui > plesk_password.txtAfter that, you can find the retrieved Plesk password in the plesk_password.txt file.