OverTheWire: Bandit Level 13
This is going to be a walkthrough of Level 13 of Bandit from OverTheWire Wargames.
We found the password from level 12.
Username: bandit13
Password: 8ZjyCRiBWFYkneahHwxCv3wb2a1ORpYL
The information on the website says that we are looking for a private SSH key, needed to log on to the next level.
So lets start by SSH-ing into the box and looking around to see what we can see.
We see a file called sshkey.private. Upon inspection, we see that the file is in fact a private key.
So this must be the private key that the website was referring too.
There is a parameter in SSH which you can specify a private key. This is so ssh uses the private key instead of using a password.
We also don’t need to end the connection to move onto the next level as we can SSH straight from bandit13. Instead of using bandit.labs.overthewire.org, we can just write localhost, which is what the computer to specify the current hostname.
And we are in.
For future reference, we can cat /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14 to obtain the password for future use.
To continue, please read my Bandit 14 walkthrough. Level 14
Thank you for reading. 