Applicable to:
- Plesk for Linux
- Plesk for Windows
Question
In Plesk, there is the main Administrator account with username (login) admin
.
Is it possible to change the username (login) of this account?
Answer
Plesk Administrator username can be changed to an arbitrary name since Plesk Obsidian 18.0.57.
To change the Plesk administrator username:
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Go to My Profile.
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Under Plesk Preferences, change the default
admin
username to a custom one, and then click OK to apply the change.
The feature can be disabled (or enabled if it is unavailable for some reason) via panel.ini:
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Open the panel.ini file for editing, which is located here:
- (Plesk for Linux)
/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini
- (Plesk for Windows)
%plesk_dir%admin\conf\panel.ini
You can also edit the file in the Plesk interface using the Panel.ini Editor extension.
- (Plesk for Linux)
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Add the following lines to the
panel.ini
file (with=true
to enable the feature), and then save it:[login]
allowChangeAdminLogin=false
Additional information
In addition to secure the default "admin" user, please consider using the below features:
1. Limit ability to login from specific IP only: Tools & Settings > IP Access Restriction Management (Restrict Administrative access in older Plesk versions).
2. Configure and enable two-factor authentication with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) extension.
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