Changed the password for Windows "admin" account.

[Thumbtack]

Hello!

I have some problem: when I wanted to change password for Windows "Administrator" account, I accidentally changed the password for Windows "admin" account.

Could you tell me what it may affect?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Thumbtack,

pls. open "cmd.exe" ( as administrator ) and use the command

"%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" -set <new_password>​

... while it should match the Windows "admin" account password. Pls. be informed, that "<new_password>" is only a placeholder, which should be replaced with your unique password.

 

[Thumbtack]

Thank you for you answer, UFHH01.

But I would like to do some clarify:

I have changed a password for windows "admin" account in windows group "Parallels Panel Users".
And when I restarted the Plesk service and tried to log in, I did it only with the old password.
If execute "%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient -get" I get the old password.

What is the purpose of the "Parallels Panel Users/admin" account?
Perhaps there is some mapping of users?
Did I understand correctly that the password of windows "Parallels Panel Users/admin" must match with the password, that I see in "%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient -get"

I will be very grateful for any advice. Thanks.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi Thumbtack,

in some rare cases, the Plesk installation uses as well the Windows "admin" account, to execute commands, you could run into issues/failures/issues/problems, if the passwords don't match, because the password will be fetched from a local ( encrypted ) file.