Goal: Find the password and log into level 1. The password is known to be hidden in the readme file.
To find the password for level 1 we will need to learn how to read files on the machine. First, let’s find out what files we can see with the ls command.
bandit0@bandit:~$ ls
readmeWe can see the readme file we are after! To read this file we can use the cat command to read the file.
bandit0@bandit:~$ cat readme
Congratulations on your first steps into the bandit game!!
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The password you are looking for is: [REDACTED]
Yours will say the actual password where it says [REDACTED] and this is what we will use to sign into level 1!
We can use the exit command to sign out of the ssh shell and sign into level 1 with:
ssh [email protected] -p 2220Use the password we found from readme and this will complete level 1!