Command Prompt

[mikeanike]

if you are a limited user, Besides becoming an administartor is there any way of getting passed the acess is denied in command prompt when a command is typed in?

[DoTTiE]

Bahaha

i tried doing that sorta stuff at school before. im pretty sure if they have blocked it then there is no way. if your trying 'netuser' , im pretty sure u cant change it being denied.

but please tell me if im wrong. i would love to learn

[GuGaBoY]

I also tried that at school a couple of years ago, with no results. Anyways I brought a pendrive with a Linux in it and booted from there...

[greyhat99uk]

I also tried that at school a couple of years ago, with no results. Anyways I brought a pendrive with a Linux in it and booted from there...

like GuGaBoy said ull have to use a portable os (livedisc)..

Your user account is in a group of which has no priveldges to access such folders, no matter where you access them from. Using the livedisc will allow full control over the Harddisk as ull log in as a local user and not a domain user with restrictions.. u could use a bootable password recovery program to reset or recover the local admin password and log in using that (make sure u select 'this computer' rather than the domain name on the login prompt)

[System_root]

sigh... two suggestions... dont try something stupid like "cmd"... try "command.com" I've seen way too many admins not block that one, the smarter (and less forgetfull) ones do block that.

And a flash drive with something like portable apps... an entire linux distro is kind of overkill for just exploring a network's security or something simple. In my expert opinion...

[The_Joker1337]

if when you turn on the computer press the reboot key it gives you a list of options on rebooting choose reboot in safe mode with command prompt and once your in comand prompt change yourself or make a new account and change him to the administrator and then open the computer in that account that works but some computers wont let you open in command prompt in safe mode

[Mathy]

if you are a limited user, Besides becoming an administartor is there any way of getting passed the acess is denied in command prompt when a command is typed in?

In Windows XP or lower, it sometimes helps to boot it up in Safe Mode, and then using the "Administrator" account, which normally doesn't have a password!

If you don't know how to boot up in Safe Mode, contact me.

Also, in Windows Vista, this is not possible. With UAC enabled, it's very hard to get through. However, when an executable (.EXE file) gets opened with Administrator access in Vista, and that executable then launches another executable, that new executable will be launched with Administrator access as well! So in theory, if you could make the system services somehow launch the program you want, or the command prompt, then it will have Administrative access, and you're through. This is very hard to do, and a virus should first be infected to the system process you want to launch, when on the Administrator account.

[qwrbrbirl]

If it is a small School system as mine was
boot into safe mode
log in admin (hoping it is unsecured in safe mode as mine was)
then change the admin pass.
Presto admin privileges.

[nathandelane]

Hey speaking of command prompt - couldn't you just hack (program) one up to do what you want it to do, or do the permissions go higher than cmd.exe/command.com? I mean programming languages incorporate all of the low level IO utilities and such. I remember back in the DOS days, there were sometimes files that had circular attributes, for example I couldn't remove one attribute before the other attribute was removed, except that attribute depended on the first being removed in the first place, so I couldn't get around it at the operating system level (these were often hidden system files). So what did I do? I got to my C++ and programmed something to remove the file attributes completely, and at that level - the programming API level - I was able to completely strip all of the file attributes. That's what it seems to me like you should do here. Program your own terminal.console application that you can run from a floppy/CD/flash drive.

[beagle]

One way I discovered to access the command prompt on a school computer is to go to the "search for files and folders" section on the start menu and search for "cmd". After a while, the command prompt will show up in the files found containing the words "cmd".
By the way, if you want to add yourself to the administrators, the following command will suffice:
"net localgoup administrators user (your username) /add
If it gives you an "access denied" message, create a batch file with that command in it and hide it somewhere that administrators usually go.(For example, replace "regedit.exe" with "regedit.bat".) Then, eventually, when the admin runs regedit, they will have unwittingly added your account to the administrators group for you.
Have fun!