For all of my approaches one thing I didn’t mention is, if I didn’t know any of the commands I just looked through the man pages, I would have a separate terminal or a virtual terminal open to let you have the man pages pulled up on the side.

Bandit Level 1 #

Task #

The password is stored in a file called - located in the home directory

Approach #

I used cat ./- to print out the text in the file - is used as an argument so the full location of the file has to be specified in order for cat to find it

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Bandit Level 2 #

Task #

The password is stored in a file called --spaces in this filename--

Approach #

Similar to the first level, I used cat ./--spaces\ in\ this\ filename-- to print out the text, the location has to be specified again due to the dashes and backslash has to be used to let the terminal know about the spaces

in general it’s bad practice to use spaces in filenames or directories as spaces are interpreted as delimiters (things that separate commands and or arguments). Instead, it’s advised to use underscores or dashes

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Bandit Level 3 #

Task #

The password for the next level is stored in a hidden file in the inhere directory.

Approach #

I checked for all files in the inhere directory via ls -a inhere which gave me the output

bandit3@bandit:~$ ls -a inhere
.  ..  ...Hiding-From-You

I then ran cat inhere/...Hiding-From-You to print out the password

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Bandit Level 4 #

Task #

The password for the next level is stored in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory.

Approach #

To check which files are human-readable in the inhere directory I ran file inhere/* which output all the file types in the directory

bandit4@bandit:~$ file inhere/*
inhere/-file00: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with no line terminators, with overstriking
inhere/-file01: data
inhere/-file02: data
inhere/-file03: data
inhere/-file04: data
inhere/-file05: data
inhere/-file06: data
inhere/-file07: ASCII text
inhere/-file08: data
inhere/-file09: data

Then I simply ran cat inhere/-file07 to get the password

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Bandit Level 5 #

Task #

The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties:

• human-readable
• 1033 bytes in size
• not executable

Approach #

Since there’s a lot of directories to look through I run find inhere/ -size 1033c ! -executable with -size 1033c specifying a file with 1033 bytes and ! -executable specifying a non executable file

bandit5@bandit:~$ find inhere/ -size 1033c ! -executable
inhere/maybehere07/.file2

then as always I get the password using cat

cat inhere/maybehere07/.file2