Level 4 to Level 5

Now while being logged in as the user bandit4, you need to find the password of user bandit5 in order to complete this level.

If you haven’t completed the previous level, do check out the write-up for Level 3 to Level 4, which is present here.

Follow these steps to proceed:

• Password for this level is stored in the only human readable file inside the inhere directory
• Navigate to the inhere directory using the command cd inhere
• To check which file is human readable, we can use the file command. Now we can check each file by hand, but let’s write a bash one liner for it
• This is the bash one liner that you need to run:

for f in *; do file "./$f"; done

• This will show you the list of all file types in the directory, the output will look like this:

./-file00: PGP Secret Sub-key -
./-file01: data
./-file02: data
./-file03: data
./-file04: data
./-file05: data
./-file06: data
./-file07: ASCII text
./-file08: data
./-file09: data

• You can see, only one file is of the type ASCII text, so we simply read its contents using the command cat ./-file07. Please use the technique of reading file with special characters, as mentioned in the writeup for Level 1 to Level 2 here.

Password obtained at the time of writing this write-up: 4oQYVPkxZOOEOO5pTW81FB8j8lxXGUQw

Note

Passwords on each of the levels are known to change regularly after a specific interval of time. So instead of skimming through the write-up, it is recommended to solve the challenge by hand.