Overthewire Bandit Level 6 -> 7

Solution for the Overthewire.org Bandit level 6 -> 7

Level Goal

The password for the next level is stored somewhere on the server and has all of the following properties:

• owned by user bandit7
• owned by group bandit6
• 33 bytes in size

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Walkthrough

Login to the server using the password obtained from the previous level Bandit level 5 -> 6.

username: bandit6

ssh bandit6@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

Similar to the previous level we need to use the find command to search for a file with specific properties.

Use find again to search the whole server /
Looking for files not directories -type f
Files owned by the user bandit7 -user bandit7
Files owned by the group bandit6 -group bandit6
Files with a size of 33 bytes -size 33c.

bandit6@bandit:~$ find / -type f -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password
bandit6@bandit:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password
HKBPTKQ##########################