Is Psexec 2.30 buggy - I cannot use it to get a SYSTEM prompt any more? (2.20 is fine)

Mike Diack 46 Reputation points
2021-01-12T13:30:45.127+00:00

I think the newly released Psexec 2.30 has a bug. On Windows 7/10 (but not XP), whenever I now try to run: psexec -i -s cmd.exe to get a SYSTEM command prompt, I see: "No process is on the other end of the pipe." This occurs even if I delete the old psexesvc.exe Psexec 2.20 is fine.

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  1. Pedro Castelo Branco Lourenço 6 Reputation points
    2021-01-12T15:52:45.26+00:00

    I am facing issues with 2.3 when I use the -h flag. With 2.2 worked fine! Since yesterday update of the package this issue came up...

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  2. Eric Huggins 1 Reputation point
    2021-01-12T16:34:33.743+00:00

    I just had the same problem with 2.3.
    Fortunately had a copy of 2.2 handy.
    Deleted psexecsvc using powershell and then ran 2.2.
    Works find now.

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  3. Paul T 1 Reputation point
    2021-01-12T19:42:23.427+00:00

    I was finally able to get this (psexec.exe -i -s cmd.exe to work by opening the services app on windows 10 as an admin and stopping the service, PSExeSVC. I then tried this psexec.exe -i -s cmd.exe and it worked. Sorry I could not be more help.

    In my post above I was trying to stop the service using PSKill so I am guessing there was an issue with that so I finally had the idea to stop the service by opening the services app as admin and stopping it. Yeah, should have done that from the beginning..

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  4. Alex Mihaiuc 716 Reputation points
    2021-01-13T11:29:41.337+00:00

    For interactive sessions the -i flag (with no session number) is now necessary.

  5. Vafin, Sergei 1 Reputation point
    2021-01-13T14:49:23.04+00:00

    I got "access denied error" with the version 2.30. With the version 2.2 it worked fine.

    The previous version of pstool 2.45 (with psexec 2.2) can be downloaded from https://www.computerbild.de/?dl=1&dlcid=WjgzVUUuVFpGLlAsTShTLVY5IihbPEZVSi5PKEgsMyhDLFA8RihQWkYuUFFNKFQxVjs2NUY9JiVaPCIoWwouOjNVRC1QJEMtMzBELDM0Si5KR2AKYAo%3D