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Bandit 4 Over The Wire

Lessons learned

file tells you what type of data is found in the file, ./* Will act on all file in a folder

Logging into Bandit 4

On a kali vm/ linux machine
Type:

ssh bandit4@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220  
pIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB

Completing The Challenge

The Goal:

password for next level located in the only human-readable file in the inhere director
The Solution:

bandit4@bandit:~$ ls inhere 
bandit4@bandit:~$ cd inhere/ 
bandit4@bandit:~/inhere$ ls 
-file00 -file02 -file04 -file06 -file08 
-file01 -file03 -file05 -file07 -file09 
bandit4@bandit:~/inhere$ file ./* 
./-file00: data 
./-file01: data 
./-file02: data 
./-file03: data 
./-file04: data 
./-file05: data 
./-file06: data 
./-file07: ASCII text 
./-file08: data 
./-file09: data 
bandit4@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ./-file07 
koReBOKuIDDepwhWk7jZC0RTdopnAYKh

the file command tells you what kind of file a certain file is, the * is a wildcard so by using ./(this directory) in conjunction with * the wildcard we tell the file command to check all the files in the directory and tell us what type of file they are, data means binary/gibberish that computers understand ascii is one of the formats available for text that is human readable.

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