OverTheWire: Bandit Level 27 → Level 28

Level Goal

There is a git repository at ssh://bandit27-git@localhost/home/bandit27-git/repo. The password for the user bandit27-git is the same as for the user bandit27.
Clone the repository and find the password for the next level.

Commands you may need to solve this level

git

> whatis git  
Git (3pm)        - Perl interface to the Git version control system  
git (1)          - the stupid content tracker

Helpful Reading Material

Version Control (Git) · the missing semester of your cs education

About Git - GitHub Docs

Solution

From the question, we understand that at this level we are going to be working with Git. Before we clone the repository let’s make a folder in the /tmp directory as from some of the previous levels we know we only have proper permissions to save files in the /tmp folder.

bandit27@bandit:~$ cd /tmp/

bandit27@bandit:/tmp$ mkdir git_level27

bandit27@bandit:/tmp$ cd git_level27

bandit27@bandit:/tmp/git_level27$

Now that we have created our working directory let’s clone the repository.

The password for the repository is the same as bandit27

Password: 3ba3118a22e93127a4ed485be72ef5ea

Now that we have the repository cloned to our machine. Let us see what files are present in the repository.

We see that there is a file called “README” in the folder. Let us have a look at the contents of this file.

Note: The .git directory found in the repository is created by git that consists of files that are required for the proper functioning of the features that are provided by git.

bandit27@bandit:/tmp/git_level27/repo$ cat README   
The password to the next level is: 0ef186ac70e04ea33b4c1853d2526fa2

And there we go we have the password for the next level !!!

Logout of the current session and log in as bandit28 to start the next level

ssh [email protected] -p 2220

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