Bandit Level 5 → Level 6

ssh bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

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

The find Command

Here is where we are going to show off the find command in all its glory, as it can do all the work for us here.

We know that the file needs to be human-readable and is exactly 1033 bytes in size, so let’s append the flags -readable and -size 1033c to the find command, and watch as it recursively scans through the directories looking for the file that meets our specifications.

bandit5@bandit:~$ find -readable -size 1033c
./maybehere07/.file2

And the password awaits us in that file!

bandit5@bandit:~$ cat ./inhere/maybehere07/.file2 
{removed in accordance with game rules}