frncscrlnd's writeups

Writeups from challenges and CTFs i take part in.

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Level 18 → Level 19

After logging in with

ssh bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

Password: x2gLTTjFwMOhQ8oWNbMN362QKxfRqGlO

…no, wait. Something’s wrong, the ssh login doesn’t work: as the game tells us, someone has modified .bashrc to log you out when you log in with SSH. Since we can’t login with SSH, we’ll try using the -T flag, which disables the shell:

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

This returns a blinking cursor:

Let’s read home/bandit18/readme:

cat readme

cGWpMaKXVwDUNgPAVJbWYuGHVn9zl3j8