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How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/18/2005 10:02:21 AM   
  token

 

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Status: offline 		Hi all,

Any idea how to stop/start a service on a local machine (from which the script is executed) when the user that runs the script doesn't have the necessary rights ?

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/18/2005 2:41:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		token I have a script that will runas you that will kill the service or start the service but what your looking for is for that user to have rights to stop and start the service. And would thing that is possible by launching gpedit.msc and giving user rights but as you well Know global overrights local, thus the only soultion would be to right a script with runas which may or may not have admin user name and password in it. There are third party softwares out there you may be able to make it harder for average use not to get this info but the above average use will. Here is one link that discusses this. I have been looking for something simalar so the will stop calling me and I run it from my desktop with runas to theres. Heres the link good luck and if you don't mind let us all know what you come up with.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.wsh/msg/95b52b798cc526e4b

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/18/2005 3:29:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks a lot tnoonan, I'll check out the link in a bit. I thought about using runas, but can't get it to accept the password as it requires the password to be typed. I tried to pipe it and it didn't work. Did you know how to use runas in this fashion ?

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/18/2005 3:53:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		The link gives you some options. Anyone who has used tcqrunas knows you can create a file with the admin user name and password in it. you can also hash it out.I'm not still comfotable with using these options and would like a better option myself. Users at my location only have rights to there desktop and c:\temp which is earased on a daily basis. Locked down to the max. We get a new software and I run sysprep filemon.exe and regmone.exe and give them the bear min. what they need "rights wise to run" hense virus comes out and we don't get hit.

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/19/2005 2:59:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey tnoonan, the link on google doesn't seem to work;it displayed an empty page on both IE and firefox. Any ideas ?

Thanks

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/20/2005 3:34:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		not working for me either..

am also quite interested to see how to do this.

does this mean that the password will be written in clear text? security?

I guess you could parse the password on a per user basis.. maybe not.

Bushmen

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/20/2005 3:44:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry don't know what happend to that link. Will try to find it again. Here is another soultion.

http://www.adminscripteditor.com/editor/scriptpackager/

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/20/2005 4:41:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK heres that link again

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E272913.27CBE26D%40hydro.com

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/20/2005 7:30:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		tnoonan: Kewl, I'll check it out. Thanks again.

bushmen: There are a couple problems with this. First of all, WMI doesn't allow you to use alternative credentials when connecting to the local machine, so that's not even an option (unless there are other ways around it). Secondly, if vbscript itself can't do this, another method will be through the help of cmd line. However, as you know, runas doesn't accept stdin. I spent 4 hours last night trying alternative methods of piping the password to the runas cmd but with no success (either throught vbscript itself or by cmd line). When that is solved, I'll need to find a way to hide userID and password. What I want to achieve is to do this using only vbscripts or built-in 2K/XP cmds, if possible. Due to company policies (which is controlled by the states), using 3rd party utilities *might* be difficult and I try to avoid that (again if possible).

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/20/2005 12:14:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		im leaning towards the scriptpackager. going to try there free download and see if with a hex editor If i can grap username and password. Need to make sure it's hard enough for above average user. Hacker proof not worried about. If someone is on our network and i dont know about it then I need to find a new job.

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/21/2005 1:41:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Take a look at AutoIT www.hiddensoft.com. This is a language that has the ability to compile a script into an exe, which can be encrypted. From this, you can call a Vbscript, even on the network, as long as the username used has rights to the folder on the network. Here is an example of a script that used to install XP and 2000's SP on users PC's.
AutoIT Script

      

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Re: How to stop/start a service on a local machine - 2/21/2005 4:17:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks tnoonan and mbouchard. I believed autoIT might just solve this problem. However, I'll still do some more testing as our unique situation gets more complicated than I first anticipated :D Again, I believe it's the best solution so far.

Thanks alot for your help guys; really appreciated.

Thanks.

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