Privilege escalation on Windows

In this recipe, we will learn about a few ways to get an administrator account on a Windows server. There are multiple ways to get administrator rights on a Windows system. Let's look at a few ways in which this can be done.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Once we have Meterpreter on the system, Metasploit has a built-in module that we can use. We can use three different methods to get administrator access.
2. First, we will see the infamous getsystem of Metasploit to view the system help. Use the following command:
   

getsystem -h

The output of running the preceding command is shown in the following screenshot:

3. To try and get the admin, type the following command...