Unable to enter password using psexec

rbeede:

following your advice, typed your first command to clean out previous login credentials to remote, there were none however, I then sucessfully executed your second command on the remote machine using administrator login/password.  The net use list shows the remote computer (d1013) having this (network resource?) mapped:

\\d1013\IPC$

I then used psexec to open the remote shell as you suggested from my computer to d1013:

psexec.exe -u mydomain\targuser -p targuserpass cmd.exe

This opens the shell successfully, however, the runas command returns the same error:

runas /user:mydomain\adminaccount "regsvr32 p_getlastinput.dll"
Enter password for mydomain\adminaccount:RUNAS ERROR: Unable to accept input

I should note that it doesn't even allow me to enter a password, as soon as i press enter after typing the runas command, it throws the error without giving me any time to enter a password.

Does this help clarify?

Please give me any other suggestions you may have.

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Also, did you mean to omit the remote computer's name in your third command?  i figured it should be psexec \\d1013 -u mydomain\targuser -p targuserpass, but you have: psexec -u mydomain\targuser -p targuserpass


Edited by byronaltice - 15 March 2007 at 2:24pm

I'm currently trying to find a way to use psexec to remotely register some DLLs.  The systems I am remoting to have users that do not have the required rights to register DLLs, however, when registering DLLs they must be registered on that user's account.  Locally I can open a command prompt and use the runas command to call regsvr32 with administrator priviledges while on the user's account.  This registers the DLL successfully; however, when I try to do the same thing remotely using psexec, i get this error:
Enter password for ********\admin:RUNAS ERROR: Unable to accept input

(asterisks added to mask my domain name)

This is the syntax i used that spawned this error:
C:\temp>runas /user:********\admin "regsvr32 c:\p_getlastinput.dll"

that same command works correctly when run locally but doesn't allow me to input a password when run remotely with psexec.

Any help is appreciated.

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Please also note that I am using the user's username and password when running psexec, not the administrator's.  If I use the administrator's username and password when running psexec, the DLL is registered under the administrator account and not the user account.  I need to figure out how to psexec into the user's account then use runas to run regsvr32 as an administrator, or I need to figure out how to use administrator's username and password with psexec but have regsvr32 affect the currently logged in user... which doesn't sound like what psexec can do.  ( Terminal Services vs VNC sort of problem).

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Also, I have tried alternatives to runas, but I get similar errors.  I tried using CPAU: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=7258 and the same command that works locally fails when calling cpau through psexec.  I have also tried SANUR: http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur_unsupported/index.html and again, the same command that works locally fails when calling sanur through psexec.


Edited by byronaltice - 15 March 2007 at 12:29pm