Just completed this machine, but still many questions and doubts.
My general toughs for the root part:
- I did not use vegetable
- I believe I used intended way, but I just used VS in order to develop (a big word in this case, mostly copy/pasting) a small tool to “retrieve” what I need in a very sharp language. You probably can do it in the “reptile” language, but deciphering part would be to much hassle for me.
- My initial idea was to just install and run the stuff and grab what I need “in the fly”. I wasted a lot of time trying to make it happen on a separate WinVM. Does someone do it on Win or (even better) on Kali? I’ll appreciate details how on PM.
- I tried to get interactive shell by passing, by forwarding and by invoking, but it did not work or just hung. At some point I gave up, just log in and literally get the flag.
Overall nice machine although p. 3 and p.4 spoiled a bit the overall impression.