[rdesktop-devel] rdesktop: logon parameters and legal notice banner?

[Paul J. <vl...@ya...>]

Hi,
I have a number of servers running Terminal services
that only have port 3389 open at a firewall to allow
access to them.  The servers themselves are also not
able to communicate back to anything on the other side
of the firewall either.

I'm trying to initiate a file transfer from the file
system on one of these terminal servers.
My solution was to use rdesktop to attach to the
server specifying a custom shell that is actually a
batch file that copies a file over to the rdesktop
machine using a drive mapping I specify in the
rdesktop connection string.  When I log onto the
terminal server this batch file runs fine and works as
expected.  The next step is to specify the username,
domain, and password on the rdesktop command line so
that this can be completely automated (and possibly
added to a cron job).
Our servers all have legal banners that have to be
acknowleged before you get to the actual login screen.
 Searching through some of the 'devel' and 'users'
archives doesn't seem to give any hints as to how to
use the auto-logon parameters specififed on the
command line to acknowledge the banner and continue to
auto logon.  If this is supported and I'm just missing
this somewhere can someone post some info on how to do
this?

After further reading I came across a posting that
mentioned that 'tsgrinder' - a terminal services brute
force password cracking tool - is able to work even
when there is a banner before the login screen.
The source for the tsgrinder tool is available:
http://www.hammerofgod.com/download.htm

Can the facility to acknowledge a legal banner be
added to rdesktop?  I'm sure the ability to remotely
automate a file transfer purely over an RDP virtual
channel would be useful for a lot of people.

Thanks,
Paul



		
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