{"id":7797,"date":"2023-06-30T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2023-06-30T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:03:03","slug":"how-to-change-your-mysql-root-password-via-plesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/how-to-change-your-mysql-root-password-via-plesk\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 3,559<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In Plesk, the default MySQL user is renamed admin and has access to only localhost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Plesk for Linux, the administrator\u2019s password is encrypted and kept in the file \/etc\/psa\/.psa.shadow; whereas, the Windows Registry stores the password. Plesk for Windows includes two distinct MySQL instances, each with its administrator user. Dive below through the steps to know more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.Login to Plesk.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img1.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img1.png 430w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>2. Click on\u00a0<strong>Databases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img2.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img2.png 224w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img2-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>3. Click on\u00a0<strong>Subscription<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img3.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img3.png 532w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img3-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>4. Click on\u00a0<strong>User Management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img4.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img4.png 555w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img4-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>5. Select\u00a0<strong>User<\/strong>\u00a0which you want to change the\u00a0password :<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img5.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img5.png 628w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img5-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>6. Now Change\u00a0the\u00a0Password:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img6.png\" alt=\"How To Change Your MySQL Root Password Via Plesk?\" class=\"wp-image-7803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img6.png 724w, https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/mysql-img6-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>7.Click\u00a0<strong>Ok<\/strong>\u00a0and Save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3,559 Views In Plesk, the default MySQL user is renamed admin and has access to only localhost. On Plesk for Linux, the administrator\u2019s password is encrypted and kept in the file \/etc\/psa\/.psa.shadow; whereas, the Windows Registry stores the password. Plesk for Windows includes two distinct MySQL instances, each with its administrator user. Dive below through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[165,191],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plesk","tag-mysql","tag-plesk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitivehost.com\/knowledge-base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}