Level 9

Objectives

  1. SSH to user bandit8
  2. Read the password from file.txt, which is on the line that only occurs once

Objective 1

  • Username: bandit8
  • Password: cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV
  • Port: 2220
  • IP/Hostname: bandit.labs.overthewire.org
user@localhost:~$ ssh -p 2220 [email protected]

Success!

Objective 2

You need to sort the file so you can organize the file, then all you need to do is pass the uniq command to pull out the one that occurs once.

bandit8@bandit:~$ sort data.txt | uniq -u
UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR