RE: Psexec on *NIX

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Thursday, May 06, 2004 04:19:17 PM -0400 Chris Carlson 
<chris () compucounts com> wrote:

> I need a utility that behaves exactly like psexec, and for the second
> time, yes, I know exactly what psexec does.
[snip]
> Say I'm sitting on a picnic bench tapped into my corporate wireless
> network in Florida from my laptop and for some strange reason I need the
> MAC address of a desktop in Ohio.  In windows, it only takes a 'psexec
> \\ohio ipconfig /all'.  I don't need to use a remote desktop client, I
> don't need to start the telnet server service on the system, and I don't
> need to log into a router to check its arp tables.  I simply execute a
> command on the remote system.
>
> I need this for unix.
I don't think you're going to find this.  You could run psexec in VMWare, 
but you said that you didn't want to do that.  You would use a Mac and run 
Virtual PC and do it.  But natively from a nix box?  I don't think that 
exists.  You're going to have to roll your own.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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