Challenge Information

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

Overview

The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties:

  • human-readable
  • 1033 bytes in size
  • not executable

Solution

SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level.

ssh -p 2220 bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org

Use find command with -size flag to specify file size and -executable for files that have user have execute permission for. Then we can use file -i to find file with charset ascii.

find inhere/ -size 1033c \! -executable
file -i inhere/maybehere07/.file2
cat inhere/maybehere07/.file2

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Lessons Learned

  • Using the find command to find files.

Tools Used

  • ssh
  • cat
  • file
  • find