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
This level is very similar to the previous level, which you have already completed by now using the find command. However, in this level, we need to include more parameters to be more specific in what we want to search for, as the scope of search is the entire machine rather than just 80 files in a folder.
bandit6@melinda:~$ find / -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password
The above command basically perform a search on the root directory, as depicted by the slash (/) symbol right after the find command. Other parameters includes,
- user, which defines the file owner, bandit7
- group, which defines the file group, bandit6 in this case
- size, which defines the size of the file. 33c means 33 bytes of characters
The output is the following,
bandit6@melinda:~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs
The password to gain access to the next level is HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs