Question Plesk Debian 12 on vps : Disable MFA with SSH

[Nad]

Server operating system version

Debian 12

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Web Admin

I lost access to my google Authenticator a,d i cannot access to VPS after logging because is prompted for a MultiFactor Authetication MFA code.
any way to resolve this problem with ssh and disable this extension MFA ?
thanks

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

If you have SSH access to the server you can disable the MFA extension by running the following command:

plesk bin extension --disable mfa

Here's the full article on the matter.

 

[Nad]

Hello Sebahat
I try to
1- Connect to ssh
2- Run : plesk bin extension --disable mfa from /mnt/opt/psa/bin/extension
3- Result ==> error : "-bash: plesk: command not found"

It's very hard to detect the file of MFA in PLESK or to list all extensions and then disable it .

thanks

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

That's strange. If the Plesk command line utility is not detected by the system you likely have some packages missing or the PATH variable is incorrect. Could you please try running the command from /usr/sbin/ as follows:

./plesk bin extension --disable mfa

If that doesn't work, please try the following:

1. Download the installer script:

wget https://installer.plesk.com/plesk-installer

2. Enable execution permission for the downloaded installer script:

chmod +x ./plesk-installer

3. Run the script to launch the interactive installer for the latest stable Plesk version in command line:

sh ./plesk-installer

4. Follow to instructions.