How to recover Plesk password ?

How to recover Plesk password ?

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

SETTING THE NEW PASSWORD USING COMMAND LINE:

# /usr/local/psa/bin/init_conf -u -passwd <new_password>

Find spamming account in Postfix or Plesk

Queue Counting
The following command provides a sorted list of the accounts that have the most mail in the queue. This usually means a maximum of 2 or 3 spammers at the end of the list:

mailq|grep ^[A-F0-9]|cut -c 42-80|sort |uniq -c|sort -n|tail

grep “status=sent” /var/log/maillog |cut -d “=” -f 2 |cut -d “>” -f 1 |cut -d “<” -f 2 |sort -n |uniq -c

grep “dovecot” /var/log/maillog |grep “Aborted login” |cut -d “,” -f 3 |cut -d “:” -f 4 |sort -n |uniq -c

plesk passoword

In case of a Plesk server, we can get the admin password by running the following command at server's command prompt.

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"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -get
==

In case of Linux server, the password is stored at 'cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow' or use /usr/local/psa/bin/admin --show-password.

For more information, please refer:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/473
http://kb.parallels.com/en/387