full-disclosure - Psexec on *NIX

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Psexec on *NIX 

--On Thursday, May 06, 2004 04:19:17 PM -0400 Chris Carlson 
<chris@...pucounts.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@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/