You can control Windows services of a remote computer just using the command line.
There are some options around there, but the one I use is psservice. This is a command line utility, part of PsTools, that allows you to control services. (See at the bottom a short description of PsTools).
The syntax is very simple:
psservice.exe \\HOST -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD COMMAND SERVICENAME
HOST - is the hostname or ip address of the host to control (local or remote)
USERNAME - a user with permissions to control services of the HOST
PASSWORD - the password of the user
COMMAND - the action to take with the service. The most commonly used are: query, stop, start, restart
SERVICENAME - the name of the service to control
For example, to restart IIS service of a remote server:
psservice.exe \\192.x.x.x -u user -p ******* restart W3SVC
If you receive an error like:
Unable to access Service Control Manager on \\192.x.x.x:
Access is denied.
or
Unable to connect to \\192.x.x.x
It's because pstools relies on $admin share access. A way to open it is:
net use \\HOST\admin$ PASSWORD /USER:USERNAME
HOST - is the hostname or ip address of the host
PASSWORD - the password of the user
USERNAME - a local or domain user with permissions to map a folder in the host
if USERNAME is a local user, type it as HOST\USERNAME,
if USERNAME is a domain user, type it as DOMAIN\USERNAME
For example:
net use \\192.x.x.x\admin$ ****** /USER:DOMAIN\USERNAME
You can remove the connection using:
net use \\192.x.x.x\admin$ /DELETE
Whith this base, you can create a batch file to restart services of a remote host with just a double-click
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PsTools description
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This tool is a set of command line utilities that allow you to manage local and remote systems
PsTools is a set of commandline utilities that allow you to manage local and remote systems.
All of the utilities in the PsTools suite work on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The PsTools download package includes an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.
The tools included in the PsTools suite are:
· PsExec - execute processes remotely
· PsFile - shows files opened remotely
· PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
· PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
· PsInfo - list information about a system
· PsList - list detailed information about processes
· PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)
· PsLogList - dump event log records
· PsService - view and control services
· PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
· PsSuspend - suspends processes
· PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo)
Centos 5.1 Chrooting SFTP using SCPonly
Installation
GCC is installed.
OpenSSH is installed.
Download scponly from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155849 and extract it to /tmp
Configure Your Installation
Navigate into the directory in /tmp where you extracted scponly. Configure with the bellow command:./configure --enable-chrooted-binary
Build & Install The Binaries
makemake install
This will install your manpage and scponly binary/binaries.
Edit /etc/shells using vi to look like this:
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/sbin/nologin
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/ksh
/usr/local/sbin/scponlyc
If you want to not use scponly in a chrooted fashion then use the following instead of scponlyc:
/usr/local/bin/scponly
Set up the jail with the following command which invokes a helper script:
make jail
The output will look similar to below:
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/man/man8
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/etc/scponly
/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 scponly /usr/local/bin/scponly
/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 0644 scponly.8 /usr/local/man/man8/scponly.8
/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 0644 debuglevel /usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglevel
if test "xscponlyc" != "x"; then \
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/sbin; \
rm -f /usr/local/sbin/scponlyc; \
cp scponly scponlyc; \
/usr/bin/install -c -o 0 -g 0 -m 4755 scponlyc /usr/local/sbin/scponlyc; \
fi
chmod u+x ./setup_chroot.sh
./setup_chroot.sh
Next we need to set the home directory for this scponly user.
please note that the user's home directory MUST NOT be writeable
by the scponly user. this is important so that the scponly user
cannot subvert the .ssh configuration parameters.
for this reason, a writeable subdirectory will be created that
the scponly user can write into.
Username to install [scponly]scponly
home directory you wish to set for this user [/home/scponly]
name of the writeable subdirectory [incoming]files
useradd: warning: the home directory already exists.
Not copying any file from skel directory into it.
creating /home/scponly/files directory for uploading files
Your platform (Linux) does not have a platform specific setup script.
This install script will attempt a best guess.
If you perform customizations, please consider sending me your changes.
Look to the templates in build_extras/arch.
- joe at sublimation dot org
please set the password for scponly:
Changing password for user scponly.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
if you experience a warning with winscp regarding groups, please install
the provided hacked out fake groups program into your chroot, like so:
cp groups /home/scponly/bin/groups
Note: I ran the command mentioned at the end.
cp groups /home/scponly/bin/groups
Note that this is not the end all for setting up chrooted scponly!
During "make jail", for example I used /home/scponly/ as mychroot main path. The following are the final steps I took to get scponly working.
Edit /home/scponly/etc/ld.so.conf and replace its content with :
/lib
/usr/lib
Type ldconfig -r /home/scponly/
Copy /lib/ld-linux.so.* in /home/scponly/lib/
cp /lib/ld-linux.so.* /home/scponly/lib/
Copy /etc/group in /home/scponly/etc/
cp /etc/group /home/scponly/etc/
Create the folder /home/scponly/etc/selinux
mkdir /home/scponly/etc/selinux
Create a file named config there and insert the following content in this file :
vi /home/scponly/etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
SETLOCALDEFS=0
Create the folder:
mkdir /home/scponly/dev
Create the null device in chroot:
mknod /home/scponly/dev/null c 1 3
Change permissions on the null device:
chmod 666 /home/scponly/dev/null