Plesk: MySQL login as Admin User
A situation came up with a new Plesk server. I needed to login to MySQL with admin/root access. I had no idea what the password was. Luckily there’s a trick to logging in as the admin user. Login remotely to your server using SSH and do the following: mysql -u admin -p `cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` Your [...]
Reset the MySQL root password.
A little while ago I inherited an old Plesk server at my workplace. Of course, nobody knew the root password. So, I had to call the hosting company who housed our dedicated server and get the root password for the box. Unfortunately, nobody knew what the MySQL root password was either. Luckily I discovered there [...]
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