Bandit Level 17 To 18

11 Apr 2022 - mike

Level 17 -> 18

Game Instructions

There are 2 files in the homedirectory: passwords.old and passwords.new. The password for the next level is in passwords.new and is the only line that has been changed between passwords.old and passwords.new

NOTE: if you have solved this level and see ‘Byebye!’ when trying to log into bandit18, this is related to the next level, bandit19

First we create a key from the information from the last level in /tmp/bandit17/

now we just nano bandit17.key and paste in the information.

This part was frustrating for me and took me a while. You need to set permissions on the file or it won’t take.

chmod 600 bandit17.key

Then we can just used the command we used in a previous level to use that key without a password:

ssh -i bandit17.key bandit17@localhost Bam… we’re in.

Now we need to diff these files passwords.new and passwords.old to see what the difference is.

There’s only 2 options and this is the one: kfBf3eYk5BPBRzwjqutbbfE887SVc5Yd