Challenge Information
- Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit)
- Difficulty: Easy
- Category: Linux
Overview
The password for the next level is stored in a file readme in the homedirectory. Unfortunately, someone has modified .bashrc to log you out when you log in with SSH.
Solution
SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level.
ssh -p 2220 bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org
But when you do you immediately get logged out with bye bye message.
What we can do instead is to let SSH run a command instead of opening interactive shell. So we can cat the readme for example.
ssh -p 2220 bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org "cat readme"
Lessons Learned
- Running commands using SSH.
Tools Used
sshcatls