How to set up the admin’s password using CLI After Installation

When Parallels Plesk Panel is installed, a random password is generated for the user ‘admin’, which replaces the old scheme when the same default password was used on all installations. This change was done to protect servers with freshly installed Panel from hacking by bots that use the default password.

After the installation is finished, you can set the admin’s password being authenticated in the Panel with credentials of the server system power user, that is “root” on Linux systems.

The admin’s password can be set up during the Panel initialization (this is the best way), or afterwards.

Issue the following command (you should have the power user privileges):

On Linux/Unix:

PSA_PASSWORD=[new_password] /usr/local/psa/bin/init_conf –set-admin-password -passwd

Reference: http://parallels.com/

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