Yesterday I have rooted the machine after struggling quite a lot on initial foothold. Thanks @tnorris for grabbing me out of a deep rabbit hole :).
The machine is easy, but it’s prone to errors. There is one service which is totally unused (at least for me), which someone might overthink and get lost into. Also the way to get foothold is a bit confusing as well (why s** configuration should be like that?) and mostly is very prone to pollution between users. You don’t need to change almost anything to exploit r*, but before you get to know that, it is very likely you will try.
Anyway, as all the machines where you struggle, I learned and was prompted to dig more into r*, so it was a learning experience. Thanks @TheCyberGeek !
Thanks @TheCyberGeek for the interesting box. I’m still rather new to this so there was plenty for me to learn and it reminded me of how its important to enumerate enumerate enumerate before digging deep down the wrong hole.
rooted, used reset once because I couldn’t establish ssh connection for user even with right parameters. After that it wasn’t hard, a little bit of googling and root is yours
Can someone nudge me in the direction of user? I’ve got the initial shell as re***. Found the hidden object and cracked it. When I try to ssh as the user M*** the connection drops instantly. THen i tried to log into the w***** and it worked, hurray, from here I see that there is a hidden c***** that i can write into, but nothing seems to work. im at a loss here, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Sekisback, I should look at what I have and not go so deep lol