admin_alias.exe: Additional Administrator Accounts

The admin_alias CL utility is used to manage additional Administrator-level accounts.

By using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:

  • creating additional Administrator accounts
  • enabling and disabling access to Plesk for additional Administrator accounts
  • updating additional Administrator account preferences
  • removing additional Administrator accounts
Location

%plesk_cli% 

Usage
admin_alias <command> [<login_name>] [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
... [<option_N> [<param>]]

Example

The following command creates the additional Administrator account with the contact name John Doe, Plesk login name JDoe, password sample, and account's email address JDoe@example.com.

admin_alias.exe --create JDoe -passwd sample -contact 'John Doe' -email JDoe@example.com

Commands
Command Parameter Description Example

--create or -c

<login>

Creates an additional Administrator account.

Requires -email and -passwd options.

To create the account with the login name JDoe, password sample, and the account's e-mail address JDoe@example.com:

admin_alias.exe --create JDoe -passwd sample -email JDoe@example.com

or

admin_alias.exe -c JDoe -passwd sample -email JDoe@example.com

--update or -u

<login>

Updates additional Administrator account settings.

To change the login name from JDoe to John and set the password to 12345:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -login John -passwd 12345

or

admin_alias.exe -u JDoe -login John -passwd 12345

--remove or -r

<login>

Removes additional Administrator account.

To remove the account with the login name JDoe:

admin_alias.exe --remove JDoe

or

admin_alias.exe -r JDoe

--info or -i

<login>

Displays additional Administrator account preferences.

To retrieve preferences of the account with the login name JDoe:

admin_alias.exe --info JDoe

or

admin_alias.exe -i JDoe

--xml-info or -xi

<login>

Displays Administrator account preferences in the XML format.

To view information about JDoe in the XML format:

admin_alias.exe --xml-info JDoe

or

admin_alias.exe -xi JDoe

--list or -l

 

Lists login names of additional Administrator accounts.

To list accounts login names:

admin_alias.exe --list

or

admin_alias.exe -l

--help or -h

 

Displays help on the utility usage.

To view help on the use of this utility:

admin_alias.exe --help

or

admin_alias.exe -h

 

Options
Option Parameter Description Example

-login

<string>

Specifies new Plesk login name for an additional Administrator account.

Used with the --update command only.

To update the account name from JDoe to John:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -login John

-passwd

<string>

Specifies Plesk password for an additional Administrator account.

Required with the --create command.

To set the JDoe account password to 54321:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -passwd 54321

-email

<email@domain>

Specifies additional Administrator account email address.

Required with the --create command.

To set email address of JDoe to jd@example.com:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -email jd@example.com

-enabled

true|false

Defines if an additional Administrator account can access Plesk.

Is true by default.

To disable access to Plesk for JDoe:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -enabled false

-contact

<string>

Specifies an additional Administrator's contact name.

 

To set the JDoe contact name to John Doe:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -contact "John Doe"

-comment

<string>

Specifies information about an additional Administrator account and its user.

To update comment on JDoe account:

admin_alias.exe --update JDoe -comment 'Administrator John Doe'