OverTheWire: Bandit Level 7
This is going to be a walkthrough of Level 7 of Bandit from OverTheWire Wargames.
We found the password from level 6.
Username: bandit7
Password: HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs
The information on the website tells us that the password is stored in the file data.txt next to the word millionth.
Let’s start by SSH-ing into the box and we see that data.txt is in the home directory.
The first thing we notice is that the file has 4 million bytes.
Instead of using cat and having the screen filled with information, we can use a command less, which limits the amount shown on screen at any time. This is the same command that is called if you were looking up a man page and makes it easy to navigate a file.
When we less the file, we see it is filled with word password pairs and would take a long time to go through each line in search of the word millionth.
This is where the command grep comes in which can search a file for a particular string of characters.
So when we search the file using grep and the string equal to millionth, it finds the line containing millionth and pulls out the line, including the password.
To continue, please read my Bandit 8 walkthrough. Level 8
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