Overthewire Bandit Level 4 -> 5
Solution for the Overthewire.org Bandit level 4 -> 5
Level Goal
The password for the next level is stored in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory.
Walkthrough
Login to the server using the password obtained from the previous level Bandit level 3 -> 4.
username: bandit4
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ssh bandit4@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
We run ls inhere to see what files are in the inhere directory.
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bandit4@bandit:~$ ls inhere/
-file00 -file01 -file02 -file03 -file04 -file05 -file06 -file07 -file08 -file09
There are 10 files which have names that are not descriptive.
We can use cat on each file to find the human readable file but can use another command to see what information is in each file without reading the contents.
The file command can be used to find out what data is stored in a file.
Now we use the file command to get information on each file in the inhere directory.
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bandit4@bandit:~$ file inhere/*
inhere/-file00: data
inhere/-file01: data
inhere/-file02: data
inhere/-file03: data
inhere/-file04: data
inhere/-file05: data
inhere/-file06: data
inhere/-file07: ASCII text
inhere/-file08: data
inhere/-file09: data
We can see one file contains ASCII text which is human readable.
Use cat command to print the contents of the file which is the password for the next level.
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bandit4@bandit:~$ cat ./inhere/-file07
koReBO##########################