Using Sysinternals from the command line
Recently, we connected to a Windows machine using SSH and downloaded a fresh copy of the Sysinternal suite. When we tried to use PSexec from our command line shell, it would get stuck without warning. We were unaware that the Sysuinteral suite does not prompt the user to accept the EULA agreement without a graphical interface. For this reason, we did not know that we had to take some action, and we were waiting indefinitely for the modules to finish, killing the processes and restarting them.
Eventually, we realized that if we added the following key in the Windows registry, PSexec would be considered by the Sysinternal suite as a EULA agreement acceptance and thus becoming operational again.
reg ADD HKCU\Software\Sysinternals\PSexec /v EulaAccepted /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
