FreeBSD help needed

[Jeff_Crowling]

Hello to all nice people over here

 

We nave a co located server which was up and runing with old freeBSD version running Plesk, but was down for the last couple of months, and now we plugged it in again.

 

We encounter this problem when logging in as root and running :

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/psa.sh start

 

We get the output:

 

Plesk: Starting DNS server (named)... done

Plesk: Starting MySQL server... mysql is not running.

mysql is running as pid 48368.

done

Plesk: Starting admin server... Enter pass phrase:

 

Now we don't have this password anywhere as the last guy take care of the server is no longer available and non of our passwords from our passwords file work.

 

Can someone suggest how should we recover this password or change it to some other password of our own ?

 

Urgent help is needed from the kind people in this forum,

 

Kind Regards

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Try this while as root:

 

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

 

If the .psa.shadow file is not there, check around other /etc/ locations on the system -- I recall the last FreeBSD system I worked on had /usr/local/etc/ and a few other places.

[Jeff_Crowling]

Thanks for the reply

 

As I really don't understand much, can you please let me know how can I see / search for this, like what are the commands I should use to see files / search for this file as I'm really noob in this.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Just type the command I listed above. From all I know about Plesk, the file should be there and you should be given your password.

[Jeff_Crowling]

Thanks for the response

 

I executed the cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

 

And it gave me some string Xxxx41 but when tried to put it as the password it doesn't worked out.

 

Can you please give me further ideas ?