OverTheWire: Bandit Level 18
This is going to be a walkthrough of Level 18 of Bandit from OverTheWire Wargames.
We found the password from level 17.
Username: bandit18
Password: kfBf3eYk5BPBRzwjqutbbfE887SVc5Yd
As can be seen on the website, there is a file called readme stored in the home directory. But it has also told us that we are automatically logged out when we are logged in.
SSH has an option where you can specify commands to run as soon as your computer is connected to the remote machine. And we are going to take advantage of that to cat the readme file.
Here is a resource detailing the process: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-execute-command-using-ssh/.
As we can see, it returns the contents of the readme file and gives us the password for the next level.
To continue, please read my Bandit 19 walkthrough. Level 19
Thank you for reading. 