How to recover forgotten plesk password from a Linux or Windows Dedicated or VPS server

To Recover your plesk password on a Linux Dedicated or VPS Server

1. Login as root to the server using ssh
2. Then issue the command below, to see your plesk password cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

To Recover your plesk password on a windows dedicated or VPS server

1. cd %plesk_bin%
2. Make sure that you ended up in a folder which is a line similar to “C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin\” If not, you will have to do a “D:\” or so depending on which drive or disk you installed Plesk on and then issue the below command
3. plesksrvclient.exe -get

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