Challenge Information

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

Overview

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several ‘=’ characters.

Solution

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

ssh -p 2220 bandit9@bandit.labs.overthewire.org

The data.txt file is a binary file. So in order to grep we have to pass the --binary-file=text flag.

grep --binary-file=text "====" data.txt

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Lessons Learned

  • Use grep on binary files.

Tools Used

  • ssh
  • grep