OverTheWire Wargames

Bandit Level 5 –> Level 6

Level Goal

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

Commands you may need to solve this level

ls, cd, cat, file, du, find

Solution

ls command show that there is folder in home directory “inhere”

bandit5@bandit:~$ ls
inhere

Lets see it

bandit5@bandit:~$ cd inhere
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$

ls command show 20 folders in inhere directory.

bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ ls
maybehere00  maybehere03  maybehere06  maybehere09  maybehere12  maybehere15  maybehere18
maybehere01  maybehere04  maybehere07  maybehere10  maybehere13  maybehere16  maybehere19
maybehere02  maybehere05  maybehere08  maybehere11  maybehere14  maybehere17

First find not executable and 1033bytes in size files

bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ find -not -executable -size 1033c
./maybehere07/.file2

Check human readablity

bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ file ./maybehere07/.file2
./maybehere07/.file2: ASCII text, with very long lines

Password in “./maybehere07/.file2”

bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ./maybehere07/.file2
DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7

Password

DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7

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