Why does PSEXEC work if I don't specify a password?
- by Kev
When I run PSEXEC to launch a process on a remote machine, if I specify the password in the command line it fails with:
PsExec could not start cmd.exe on web1928:
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
psexec \\web1928 -u remoteexec -p mypassword "cmd.exe"
If I just specify:
psexec \\web1928 -u remoteexec "cmd.exe"
and type in the…