OverTheWire: Bandit Level 29 → Level 30
The Bandit wargames are aimed at absolute beginners. It will teach the basics needed to be able to play other wargames.
Level Goal
There is a git repository at
ssh://bandit29-git@localhost/home/bandit29-git/repo. The password for the userbandit29-gitis the same as for the userbandit29.
Clone the repository and find the password for the next level.
Commands you may need to solve this level
git
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> 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
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.
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bandit29@bandit:~$ cd /tmp/
bandit29@bandit:/tmp$ mkdir git_level29
bandit29@bandit:/tmp$ cd git_level29
bandit29@bandit:/tmp/git_level29$
Now that we have created our working directory let’s clone the repository.
The password for the repository is the same as bandit29
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Password: bbc96594b4e001778eee9975372716b2
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.md” 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.
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bandit29@bandit:/tmp/git_level29/repo$ cat README.md
# Bandit Notes
Some notes for bandit30 of bandit.
## credentials
- username: bandit30
- password: <no passwords in production!>
Similar to last time looks like we do not find a password in the file. If we look closely at the message “No passwords in Production” we understand that we are given a clue as to where to look for the password. Git can create branches. So if production is a branch there might be another branch for development purposes that has the password.
We can view all the branches present in git using the branch -a option.
We see that there is a branch called “dev”. Let us have a look at this branch and see if we can find the password.
And there we go we have found the password for the next level !!!
Logout of the current session and log in as bandit30 to start the next level
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> ssh [email protected] -p 2220
This is a OverTheWire game server. More information on http://www.overthewire.org/wargames
[email protected]'s password: 5b90576bedb2cc04c86a9e924ce42faf