6d ago

only thing that makes this dumpster fire usable

not really programming and probably butchered the execution on that cmd but this felt like the only place it would be funny to post it

Linux Furs @pawb.social

Southern Wolf @pawb.social

5d ago

only thing that makes this dumpster fire usable

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As a security professional… yeah, nope. Nope, nope, nope.
Win11 has many usability issues, and Windows seems to accumulate more with every design decision, but reaming your arse open for someone else to bugger you via an exploit run under your own account is not one of them.
So this is what it looks like when I Windows people read our shell commands.
- I was thinking the same thing. I feel kind of bad now.
  Also: this is what it would look like if Linus wrote a CPM kernel instead.
  
  Your username rules
- Why is it all uppercase? It looks so wrong, eventhoughI don'tknowwhat the runes mean.
  (I know windows supposedly doesn't care, it should matter for command options though)
That syntax hurts my eyes
- It’s been years for me but the F/ looks totally wrong. administrators:f seems wrong too but not impossible.
  
  it is wrong, I butchered it
- Another reason to use Linux is to spare yourself the Windows CMD prompt syntax
Oh wow, a security disaster. You know, you can temporarily escalate your privileges if you need to modify Program Files, right? It's just one UAC prompt away.
- oh god not the UAC 🤮 so I use a lot of software that needs to be able to handle files too and some that gets temperamental with things that mess with full screen. I get what UAC is for but for my daily use it's basically a rake for me to step on
  
  UAC is the only thing between you and a certain security desaster.
  If you can't remember times before UAC, call yourself happy.
F/ ?
- shit, I meant /F.
  
  Thankyou
What does this even do ?
- takes ownership of the C disk in windows and gives administrators full priveledges for program files. by default they belong to "trustedinstaller" which bars you from using a lot of your own computer, even if you make an admin account.
  
  I feel like that would break a lot of stuff
  
  Good on you if you think you can handle the responsibility of being able to completely wreck your OS. The option exists for a reason.
  But Windows was made with the average user in mind. And they can't be trusted with that kind of power.
  Though I do question the security issues that arise from doing this. If your account can break everything, so can every software/malware you install.
  
  "Trusted installer" has such "Trust me bro" energy and I hate it. I don't trust you one goddamned bit gimmie those files!
- I’d guess it allows administrators to read write all files in c
  But I’m it positive
Pairs nicely with rd /s /q "C:\"
- the perfect space saver
at this point just login as system or trustedinstaller lol for elevated stuff i usually use 7zip as admin or system(nircmd)
- You can log in as trustedinstaller???
  do you mean like accessing your files in the 7zip interface? I hadn't thought of using that for anything besides zipping. that's clever
  
  PS C:/Users/you> .\psexec.exe /s /i cmd.exe
  
  idk if its system or trustedinstaller that i literally logged into and launched a "user session", its been a while since i played around windows. but yeah it kinda works although it breaks explorer heavily (lol)
  just use a normal admin user and use nircmd to run 7zip totalcmd etc as SYSTEM
Something something delete system32
I find it more funny that people including yourself don’t know if it’s correct or not.
It’s about 6 clicks in the gui.
- It's about 6 clicks in the GUI 💀
- I've used that method too. switched to using cmd because the GUI has crashed before while making changes to large amounts of data. with more recent versions of windows the more unstable it seems to get.
  
  I recently changed the acls on 20tb of documents. On 2cpu and 8gb mem serving a few hundred users.
  Seems stable enough for my needs.

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