Bandit1

bandit level 1

ssh server: bandit.labs.overthewire.org port 2220

username: bandit1

password: boJ9jbbUNNfktd78OOpsqOltutMc3MY1

connect to the ssh server

The bandit1 home directory contains nothing else a file with name dash "-", Linux uses -'s to add command arguments which means that the file can not be directly be read by the cat command

the work around is to not add the - direct next to the cat command, this could be dome in several ways

 

$ cat ./-

this means print out the contents of the file named - which in the root of current directory

OR

$ cat /home/bandit1/-

this means print out the contents of the file named - which in the bath /home/bandit1

OR

$ cat < -

direct the contents of the file -  to be printed

OR

$ dd if=- 1>/div/stdout

convert and copy the Input File named - to the standard output (the screen)

this prints some unneeded data, that's why we use the next format

$ dd if=- 2>/dev/null

convert and copy the Input File named - to the standard output (the screen), but direct the unneeded data to a null device

all the previse methods will print out the contents of the file "-" which is the password for the next challenge bandit2

lets meet in bandit2

Your comments and feedback are highly appreciated

Thank You