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Bandit 26 Objectives Bandit Level 25 → Level 26Level GoalLogging in to bandit26 from bandit25 should be fairly easy… The shell for user bandit26 is not  /bin/bash , but something else. Find out what it is, how it works and how to break out of it. Solution This one is crazy and I could get about 60% there just with my knowledge but had to cheat and google solution to find out how to solve it so Here is what I did by myself before resulting to other write ups let's check the etc/passwd to see what the default shell for bandit 26 is $ cat /etc/passwd bandit23:x:11023:11023:bandit level 23:/home/bandit23:/bin/bash bandit24:x:11024:11024:bandit level 24:/home/bandit24:/bin/bash bandit25:x:11025:11025:bandit level 25:/home/bandit25:/bin/bash bandit26:x:11026:11026:bandit level 26:/home/bandit26:/usr/bin/showtext bandit27:x:11027:11027:bandit level 27:/home/bandit27:/bin/bash bandit28:x:11028:11028:bandit level 28:/home/bandit28:/bin/bash Well the defulat shell is not /