FYI, I believe OSSEC 2.7 now has a configuration toggle that would would allow 
commands in agent.conf to be executed on each Agent--this allows for 
centralized management of (full_)commands.


On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Michael Starks responded with the Windows command to determine account 
> availability.
> 
> net user account_name | find "Account active               Yes"
> 
> This could be placed the the full_command syntax on the agent machine's 
> ossec.conf. This would need to be distributed to all agent machines by some 
> means.
> 
> Scott 
> 
> On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:56 AM, Michiel van Es <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm the code is from 2010 and there are 2 beta versions..doesn't look there 
>> is a lot of progress on the development of this product.
>> I might try OpenVAS but it would be great if there was a check, since we do 
>> check files for Linux with OSSEC, I would imagine you could do something 
>> similar with OSSEC, Windows Accounts are stored (at least on older version) 
>> in the SAM database.
>> 
>> Op dinsdag 27 november 2012 18:20:47 UTC+1 schreef sklauminzer het volgende:
>> Something like this might be a better tool for your needs: 
>> SSA - Security System Analyzer 2.0 
>> http://code.google.com/p/ssa/  
>> 
>> You could tie it into OSSEC with the full_command option. 
>> 
>> If all you need to t o determine the Admin account status, then use a 
>> PowerShell command in full_command. 
>> 
>> Scott 
>> 
>> On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Michiel van Es <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> 
>> > Hi, 
>> > 
>> > We want to check for hardening and one of our Windows hardening rules is 
>> > to rename the Administrator account and create a decoy Administrator 
>> > account, not part of any group and disabled. 
>> > One of the things we want to check is to see if the Administrator account 
>> > is enabled on Windows machines. 
>> > 
>> > Is there a check of simple script how I can establish this on the Windows 
>> > machines? 
>> > 
>> > Regards, 
>> > 
>> > Michiel 
>> 

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