Forcing cmd

[Travveh]

Due to school restrictions, the command prompt has been disabled. However, last year I was able to get into it via another program... is there any way to force it open/backdoor? I ask this in Turing Help because that's the only real programming language at my disposal... And no, Sys.Exec doesn't work... Any help would be appreciated.

[Mazer]

The system administrator probably has good reasons for not wanting you to have access to the command prompt.

Or, he has no good reason for it, but it's still him who is in charge and the computers don't belong to you so you really have to respect his wishes.

[rdrake]

Sometimes the system administrators are morons and still leave command.com open.

[Dan]

If Sys.Exec will not work there is not much turing can do to help you behond geting a dir listing.

Mazer is right in that they cleary do not whont you to be using it since they whent out of there way to stop you. Tho i hardly can adgrea with make a computer "secure" like this. There are much better methods to stoping students form messing up a computer that do not restick there use of it. This is even more silly becues they almost deftaly have deep freze runing on it, it is almost as bad as stoping students from right clicking.

Also this method of locking down a computer just dose not work and with some looking around and trying things most students can find out how to bypass it rather quickly.

[Euphoracle]

We can't rightclick at my school. It'd fairly dumb, because we have a file menu at the top of the screen on Explorer windows. Right-click is just a convenience.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Make a text file, type in command.com, save it, change the extension from .txt to .bat.
I'm not responsible for your actions though.

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

Yeah; you can also do mostly anything you want on the command line through batch files anyway.
You can also try renaming a copy of cmd.exe or command.com to "winword" .

What does it say when you try to run it anyway?

[Travveh]

OneOffDriveByPoster @ Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:15 am wrote:

Yeah; you can also do mostly anything you want on the command line through batch files anyway.
You can also try renaming a copy of cmd.exe or command.com to "winword" .

What does it say when you try to run it anyway?

A line in the cmd comes up and says your administrator has disabled this function.
However i did have a different one working...

And they've restricted the computers so you can't create a .bat file... had issues with a student last year who had a batch file that stopped the monitoring system seeing what he was doing... That can be easily bypassed with a USB drive though, which I don't have on me.

And renaming the file doesn't work, as it's the file itself that triggers the blocking, rather than the file name...

And no, i'm not going to do anything "hostile" with the cmd prompt. =P




EDIT: Oh wow... just found command.com and it worked.
xD
Thanks guys.

[Zampano]

At our school the went to great pains to make sure the local disk was locked off from access through pretty much anything. Too bad they left "Desktop" open . . .

[Saad]

Why do you need access to command prompt, it's blocked for obvious reasons

[OneOffDriveByPoster]

a100 @ Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:19 pm wrote:

Why do you need access to command prompt, it's blocked for obvious reasons

Because it's easier to use than Windows Explorer...