RE: Psexec on *NIX

[<xtrecate () spymac com>]

The idea here is that he'd like to run commands on a remote windows box,
from the nix box.  Psexec allows you to run commands on remote win boxes,
however there exists only a Win32 version.

SSH is fine and good, but Psexec requires nothing more than a fresh windows
install, so there'd be no need to deploy new services like ssh.

Having administered a large windows domain, I can wholeheartedly agree that
psexec is a time saver.

-Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Exibar
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 3:50 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: RE: [inbox] RE: [Full-disclosure] Psexec on *NIX 

At first I thought this request was coming from just someone who doesn't
know about SSH, the 'r' services, etc. No-one knows everything and that's
cool, but then I thought about it for a second...and now to me this sounds
either like someone who wants to ILLEGALLY use other resources on some elses
network, wants to write a worm that will access anything he wishes on any
network he wishes, or he's simply trolling because he's bored.  ahhh, I
know, a high school kid who wants to change his grades or impress a freshman
or some chick to get laid...well, I've done some funky things to get laid,
so I'll give him that one :-)

  I don't know any UNIX admin that would have a problem using SSH or rshell,
etc.

 Exibar


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Carlson [mailto:chris () compucounts com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:19 PM
> To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [inbox] RE: [Full-disclosure] Psexec on *NIX
>
>
> I need a utility that behaves exactly like psexec, and for the second
> time, yes, I know exactly what psexec does.
>
> I need to be able to execute commands on remote windows systems without
> doing anything to them beforehand.  All suggestions thus far have
> required additional software to be installed on these systems but I
> don't want to leave anything on these systems or have to touch them in
> any way.  I know it is possible to remotely install any solution and
> then use it, but it doesn't make sense to do so.  Why would I install
> and run an ssh daemon just to use it to run another program, then delete
> the ssh daemon?  Why would I do that with anything?  It just doesn't
> make sense.
>
> I don't want central mangement. I don't want web applications.  I want
> to be able to walk into a network with my laptop that I've never before
> seen, and execute any program on any windows system of my choice.
> (That I've got access to, of course).  Going physically to the computer
> to install something takes more time and energy than what is needed; so
> does using RDP or VNC to do the same.
>
> 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.
>
> Any more questions?
>
> - Chris

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