Thanks to some great responses in a previous article I decided to create an updated post for Ubuntu 14.04 since it is the incumbent LTS release at this time (September ’14).
Step 1 – Install autoconf which is used in the compilation process
sudo apt-get install autoconf |
Step 2 – Download the ‘wmic’ source (I will work in my ‘Downloads’ directory)
cd ~/Downloads wget http://www.openvas.org/download/wmi/wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 |
Step 3 – Untar the source
tar -xvf wmi-1.3.14.tar.bz2 |
Step 4 – Go into the directory and add a line of text to the top of ‘GNUmakefile’
#Go into the directory where the files were untarred to cd wmi-1.4.14/ #or whatever version you installed #Edit 'GNUmakefile' and add the following at the top (just after the License Info) ZENHOME=../.. |
Step 5 – Compile (this part changed from the previous article)
sudo make "CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding" #Now grab a magazine or something - this can take a few minutes #After a while you 'might' get something like this - I did ..... cp: target `../../lib/python' is not a directory make: *** [pywmi-installed] Error 1 #wmic is already compiled and usable at this stage so it's not an issue. Proceed to Step 6 |
Step 6 – Test wmic
#In the ~/Downloads/wmi-1.3.14/ directory you will find a file named 'bin'. Create a copy of this file and name it wmic cp bin wmic #Test it #./wmic -U[user]%[password] //[host/ip] "[WMI Query]" ./wmic -Utestuser%tstpass //172.16.2.2 "SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem" #Output should be similar to this: CLASS: Win32_OperatingSystem BootDevice|BuildNumber|BuildType|Caption|CodeSet|CountryCode|CreationClassName|CSCreationClassName|CSDVersion|CSName|CurrentTimeZone|Debug|Description|Distributed|EncryptionLevel|ForegroundApplicationBoost|FreePhysicalMemory|FreeSpaceInPagingFiles|FreeVirtualMemory|InstallDate|LargeSystemCache|LastBootUpTime|LocalDateTime|Locale|Manufacturer|MaxNumberOfProcesses|MaxProcessMemorySize|Name|NumberOfLicensedUsers|NumberOfProcesses|NumberOfUsers|Organization|OSLanguage|OSProductSuite|OSType|OtherTypeDescription|PAEEnabled|PlusProductID|PlusVersionNumber|Primary|ProductType|QuantumLength|QuantumType|RegisteredUser|SerialNumber|ServicePackMajorVersion|ServicePackMinorVersion|SizeStoredInPagingFiles|Status|SuiteMask|SystemDevice|SystemDirectory|SystemDrive|TotalSwapSpaceSize|TotalVirtualMemorySize|TotalVisibleMemorySize|Version|WindowsDirectory \Device\HarddiskVolume1|3790|Uniprocessor Free|Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Enterprise Edition|1252|1|Win32_OperatingSystem|Win32_ComputerSystem||WIN2003-VM-HS|120|False||False|168|2|779280|2348260|3127540|20121101081525.000000+120|1|20121101090258.411875+120|20121105103817.505000+120|0409|Microsoft Corporation|4294967295|2097024|Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1|5|46|4|Sintrex Integration Services (Pty) Ltd|1033|274|18|(null)|False|(null)|(null)|True|3|0|0|Test User|69763-011-6394922-43753|0|0|2527020|OK|274|\Device\HarddiskVolume1|C:\WINDOWS\system32|C:|0|3575072|1048052|5.2.3790|C:\WINDOWS |
Step 7 – Copy wmic to /usr/bin so you can use it from anywhere
sudo cp wmic /usr/bin/ |
That’s it, it should work now from anywhere.