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SmashTheStack.org – BlackBox – Level 1 Objective: Get the pass for level 2 Solution: So this is the first level for smashthestack.org blackbox. You are given the user/pass for level one and need to get the level 2 pass So first things first let’s ssh putty.exe -ssh level1@blackbox.smashthestack.org 2225   Using username "level1". level1@blackbox.smashthestack.org's password: lets start with ls to see where we landed and what there level1@blackbox:~$ ls -al total 24 drwxr-x---   2 root    level1 4096 Oct 23   2016 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root    root    4096 Mar 22   2012 .. lrwxrwxrwx   1 root    root       9 Sep 13   2016 .bash_history -> /dev/null -rw-r--r--   1 level1 gamers    35 Sep   3   2016 .bashrc -rw-------   1 root    gamers 1170 Oct 23   2016 .viminfo -rwxr-xr-x   1 level2 level1 7591 Apr 22   2017 login2   Cool There is a file called login2 that we have access to lets see what kind of file it is