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Re: Can CMD be tweaked to emulate background processes? OFF TOPIC?


never happen again

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> Unless I 'm missing something this post has nothing to do with cygwin.
> This is not the appropriate forum for this question.  I'd suggest going
> to one of the many many Usenet newsgroups devoted to Windows for
> guidance.
> 
> cgf
> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 04:42:54PM -0400, Campi, Nathan P. wrote:
> >I need help making a background process under the native NT shell,
> >CMD.EXE
> >
> >I love how my FreeBSD box mails me security info each and every night. I
> >decided to make a similar security script for NT, and to try and make it
> >available to as many people as possible, I thought about using CMD
> >instead of bash.
> >The only reason is that some of my Navy security friends like to be
> >minimalists. They use as little extra software as possible, so if I
> >don't have to tell them to use a new shell (bash), so much the better.
> >
> >The problem is with a scan detection method I wanted to experiment with.
> >I want to launch multiple netcat processes listening on different ports,
> >ready to execute a "net send" to the security admin when connected to,
> >but cmd doesn't support background processes the way bash does.
> >I could use the start command, but it will launch another window, and I
> >don't need 5 or 10 CMD windows sitting on my desktop!
> >
> >BTW, so far I have the basic script doing the following:
> >1. outputting the last 10 successful and unsuccessful logons
> >(ntobjectives' ntlast)
> >2. checking for added/deleted user accounts (outputs "net name" to text
> >file and compares old one to new one, backup in case event log is
> >cleared)
> >3. checking passwords against a wordlist to ensure password strength
> >(command line version of l0phtcrack)
> >4. outputs hidden files made since the last time the script was run
> >(forensic toolkit's hfind)
> >5. gives info on NTFS partitions (sysinternals ntfsinfo utility)
> >6. event log dump to search for specific events (dumpevt and grep the
> >file)
> >7. defrags the hard drive (sysinternals' contig util)
> >
> >If people want to play with it, let me know and I'll post it to my
> >website for download... it certainly needs work :)
> >I really haven't done anything that others here can't reproduce in
> >minutes with the info I gave.
> >
> >If anyone has any way to smoothly make an equivalent to a background
> >process using cmd please let me know.

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  Nate Campi
  npcampi at jak10.med.navy.mil

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