How can i generate a script that will open up the terminal, login to the local admin account using username and password then make the non-admin user an admin. Like this link where its done manually but i want it done using a script.
I'm not sure if the terminal will take a password or username from a script, if not could someone tell me? obviously the script wont be possible then.
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I have logged in with one user in my system. Like, userA. Now, I have opened command prompt window with administrator privileges. In same Administrator command prompt window need to run my EXE file for userA without the password.
I have tried "RunAs" command but it will ask for Password.
Is there any other alternative, where I can solve my problem.
I have logged in with one user in my system. Like, userA.
Ok...
In same Administrator command prompt window need to run my EXE file for userA without the password.
So you are already logged in as userA why would you need to enter the passsword again?
If you need to run something as as a different user you can create a batch file and set up a scheduled task to run it with their credentials, but don't actually give it a schedule. When you are then logged in as a differnt user you can call the scheduled task and it will run as the user it is associated with.
I was trying to change my windows password via command:
net user Adminstrator newpassword
However, I accidentally did this
net user Administrator "newpassword"
There is no special character in the password
Now I am not able to logon my Administrator account via either newpassword or "newpassword"
Please help.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Apparently it is an issue for Windows password change command, that you cannot put double quotes in the password, and if you did, the command will be executed successfully but nobody knows what the password is.
I resolved this issue via resetting admin password to default following the instruction at:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ResettingAdminPassword_EC2Config.html
I was lucky I am having this issue with AWS EC2 instance, otherwise I won't be able to resolve like that.
It happens when using escape sequence in command prompt
Run the following command in command prompt with administrator privilege
echo EnteredPassword >> C:\ActualPassword.txt
EnteredPassword is the password that you entered in the command prompt
And your actual password will be available in C:\ActualPassword.txt
I'm trying to run runas command in Windows but it asks about password. I use system('runas /user:username cmd') but it needs entering the password manually. Is there any possibility to enter automatically this password in my ruby script? Saving password in any file is forbidden.
--edit: ReggieB suggested to add some more information.
I'm writing a fact for Puppet. We have puppet agents installed on local Administrator accounts and local Administrator can't have access to information about domain users. Because of this I decided to run cmd as domain user that can have access to domain users. The problem is that runas command needs to manually enter the password. It's impossible to do this in facts so I need some method in Ruby that will do this automatically. I need to do
system('runas /user:username cmd')
and some method that enter the password in command prompt instead of me.
I am trying to write a script to automatically upload files to a sftp server. My problem is authentication.
I know it is not possible to store a password in a bash script for sftp.
I can't use keys because the admin of the server won't allow me.
I don't want to use any extras (sshpass/expect) because I can't
guarantee they will be on the machine I'm using (the script are wanted so that the processes are not tied down to a particular machine).
Manual entry of the password is not a problem I just need to get the script to wait for the user to put the password in. At the minute when I run the script it opens terminal, prompts for the password, but when this is entered nothing else happens. If I enter the lines of code manual after it uploads everything correctly.
#!bin/bash/
cd /remote_directory
lcd /local_directory
put some_file.txt
After months of looking for an answer I have finally found the solution. It was in a comment on an answer in some other thread I can't even remember. Hope this can help others out there.
Your bash script should look like this and will connect to the sftp server, prompt the user for the password, and then execute the remaining commands.
#!/bin/bash
sftp user#server <<!
cd /the/remote/directory
lcd /your/local/directory
put/get some.file
!
My Script currently takes the first user returned from "users" and in testing it worked fine but once i turned it into a login hook it couldn't pickup the user properly.
Is there a way to pickup the user that is logging in?
Using $USER doesnt work either
Ive tried using "/usr/bin/logname" to get the username and that only returns "root"
Have you tried $USER env variable?
MacOS passes the username to the script as the first argument so in bash it would be stored in $1