OverTheWire Bandit Level 3 → 4 Walkthrough
Finding and reading a hidden file with ls -a
OverTheWire Bandit Level 3 → 4 Walkthrough
Level goal: The password for the next level is stored in a hidden file in the inhere directory.
Commands you may need: ls, cd, cat, file, du, find
Helpful reading: None
Write-up
ls does not show the hidden files. Thus to look at all the files I used la which is an alias for ls -a.
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bandit3@melinda:~$ ls inhere/
This shows a .hidden file. Files with names starting with a .(dot) automatically get hidden in Unix.
cat inhere/.hidden reveals the password for the next level.
Level 4 password:
pIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB