Over the Wire - Bandit 2

Bandit 2


Objectives

​The password for the next level is stored in a file called readme located in the home directory. Use this password to log into bandit1 using SSH. Whenever you find a password for a level, use SSH (on port 2220) to log into that level and continue the game.



Solution

I used my bandit.py script to connect to level 1 using the password we retrieved from level 1

Let's ls to see what is in the home directory for bandit1

bandit1@bandit:~$ ls-

that's a bit funky it just lists a hyphen as the content of the home directory, lets look at the file named -

bandit1@bandit:~$ file ./-./-: ASCII text

okay so we know it just a txt file.

cat ./-bandit1@bandit:~$ cat ./-CV1DtqXWVFXTvM2F0k09SHz0YwRINYA9

but I'm trying to force myself to learn python so even though we have the answer I'm not going to stop there.

pythobandit1@bandit:~$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> file = open("./-")
>>> file.read()
'CV1DtqXWVFXTvM2F0k09SHz0YwRINYA9\n'
>>> file.close()
>>> exit()