Re: Windows Administrator access

From: Thor (Hammer of God) (Thor@HammerOfGod.com)
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 11:58:42 EST


A "set" is always a good way to get interactive user info as well--
you not only get the username var, but the dns domain and the user
domain, the path info, app data settings, etc...

t

On Feb 25, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Neil wrote:

> Dillama wrote:
>> After gaining shell access to a Windows box, is there any way to show
>> administrator privilege without changing the config or uploading new
>> files?
>> I have to demo the ability to gain administrator access to a Win 2000
>> box, the catch is no changes on the box so adding a user or loading
>> whoami.exe from resource kit would not be options. Any suggestion
>> here
>> would be appreciated.
>> Thanks
>> ---
>> Dillama
>
> Well, personally I would just remove the admin privs from all the
> other users as proof, or drill it home with "netsh firewall set
> opmode disable" (disables the firewall); but I suspect whoever
> asked you to demo wouldn't be too thrilled with you doing things my
> style.
>
> So for you, I would drag them over to the workstation and run "echo
> %username%", which would show what user your shell is running as,
> and then follow it with "net localgroup administrators", which will
> list all administrators (I assume your running a local admin
> account, not as System or Local Service).
>
> Hope it helps.
> -Neil
>
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