@valentinelocke said:
I took a few months off from HTB, and either I got really rusty, or I’m missing something obvious. I have the initial shell, and I can see user.txt, but can’t read it… whatever I’m missing has to be painfully obvious but I have spent about 2 hours and can’t seem to figure it out.
Try go back to basics. Think to yourself, what can the string inside this ‘pass.txt’ file do? Can it be used to do something that may lead you to reading or accessing user.txt?
Goodluck.