Level 6 - Find password in a file with certain properties inside inhere directory (Misc)

Description

The goal of this level is to get the password for the next level stored in a file with certain properties inside the inhere directory. The properties are

• human-readable
• 1033 bytes
• not executable

Tech used

• cat
• cd
• find
• file
• grep

Solutions

Run ssh bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220. Password is 4oQYVPkxZOOEOO5pTW81FB8j8lxXGUQw

• Determine the file with ASCII text and print its output
  • Run cd inhere
  • Run find -type f ! -executable -size 1033c -exec file {} + | grep "ASCII"
  • Run cat ./<file> where <file> is the filtered file from the above command

Notes

• Find is pretty powerful for any file search, prefer using it over grepped ls or similar commands. Has operators like !, -and, -or, etc for better filtering.
• find manual page