Challenge Information

  • Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit)
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Category: Linux

Overview

There is a git repository at ssh://bandit30-git@bandit.labs.overthewire.org/home/bandit30-git/repo via the port 2220. The password for the user bandit30-git is the same as for the user bandit30.

From your local machine (not the OverTheWire machine!), clone the repository and find the password for the next level. This needs git installed locally on your machine.

Solution

Clone the repo

git clone ssh://bandit30-git@bandit.labs.overthewire.org:2220/home/bandit30-git/repo

In git we can mark commits with a tag. To see all tags run

git tag

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We see that there is a tag named secret. Lets show the tag

git show secret

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Lessons Learned

  • Using git tags.

Tools Used

  • ssh
  • git