Thanks for the box! New and learning all I can! Got User and Root. No way I would have gotten Root without some of the hints here. I just spent forever reading the wrong manuals.
User: Not sure how it worked for others, but for me, the leap I needed actually came from reading the manual of common software that worked similarly to what I was attacking.
Root: This was a good review of the need to understand how options we might rarely use from commands we might use a lot can have serious security implications. Once you get it, it really does seem so simple.
Rooted, Big thanks @BugZ , @AzAxIaL , @kkbear for your help.
This box should be named magic or copperfield. The way we got into hidden folder or elevate priviledges to root looks like magic trick.
Learned something new about ssh
i was trying to get user. i got the hidden stuff (the thing to crack and the thing required to crack). when i try to use op****l to crack it, keeps throwing errors. After playing around i was able to make it output, but the file comes in an incorrect format. Im usung 1.1.1 ver. Any nudges?
Could someone nudge me in the right direction for user? i have limited priv shell, unhashed creds and unsure of the significance of a certain conf file
Root took me ages to figure out, I guess it’s a well known trick, but if you don’t know it like I didn’t then you’ll spend a long time researching and trying to break the wrong bit of the command. The solution is very simple (no complex commands or guessing needed) and clearly a “must know” in the linux world.
Needing some help, I’ve tried a lot and followed several tips left in the forum, but I can’t identify what I’m doing wrong to be root.
I’ve used several GTFO commands.
Who can help, thank you.