Recovering Parallels Plesk panel password

Following are the steps to recover Plesk Control Panel Password.

1. SSH to the server as root user.

2. For Plesk version 10.1 and below, you can use following command to check/retrieve password.

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

 
This file contains your admin Parallels Plesk Panel password
Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2, however, encrypts this file. To view the encrypted file, use the following command:
 

/usr/local/psa/bin/admin – -show-password