Runs specified command, watchs for stdout/stderr and sends output to socket server.

This python program was originally created to monitor Windows command launched under UAC elevated privileges using ShellExecuteEx.

Windows ShellExecuteEx function prevents stdout/stderr from being displayed in console (in fact there is no console). This program is only a workaround for that problem.

When server is gone, cmdlogger process will quit too avoiding background zombi processes.

This program runs with Python2.7.X and Python3.X and requires no extra library.

Launch Windows command using ShellExecuteEx (no console window and UAC elevation):

command = [u'mycommand.sh', u'param1']
user_cmd = command[0]
user_cmd_params = [u'param1', u'param2'] + command[1:]
proc_info = ShellExecuteEx(nShow=win32con.SW_HIDE, fMask=shellcon.SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS, lpVerb=u'runas', lpFile=cmd, lpParameters=params)

And inspires next part of your code with test/server.py sample.

This is an example of how to run command with admin privileges using cmdlogger on Mac environment:

command = [u'mycommand.sh', u'param1']
params = [cmdlogger_path, comm_port, self.command[0]] + self.command[1:]
cmd_line = 'osascript -e "do shell script \\"%s\\" with administrator privileges"' % u' '.join(params)
proc_info = subprocess.Popen(cmd_line, shell=True, stdin=None, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=self.on_posix)

This is an example of how to run command with admin privileges using cmdlogger on Linux environment:

command = [u'mycommand.sh', u'param1']
params = [cmdlogger_path, comm_port, self.command[0]] + self.command[1:]
cmd_line = 'pkexec %s' % u' '.join(params)
proc_info = subprocess.Popen(cmd_line, shell=True, stdin=None, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, close_fds=self.on_posix)

You can find full usage example in console.py on CleepDesktop project

Install build dependency Pyinstaller running in console:

pip3 install -r requirements

Now build a standalone executable running:

build.bat or build.sh

Then run 7zip to compress archive:

7z.exe a cmdlogger-[target].7z dist\cmdlogger\

You can find precompiled version for different environment into dist/ folder.

If you get this error:

IndexError: tuple index out of range
pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip

Please install pyinstaller devel version that supports python 3.6 (latest official release 3.3.1 officialy support python 3.6)

You can launch tests using test/server.py script:

python3 server.py

And launch cmdlogger with parameters:

python3 cmdlogger.py 9001 test\test.bat

9001 is the hardcoded port in server.py