Alright, since the box has now been patched and somehow a lot of people aren’t sure if they did it the intended way:
- If you used psexec, it was unintended.
- If you went straight to a SYSTEM shell, got root.txt and wondered where user.txt was… you did it the unintended way.
- If you rooted the box in 10 minutes and thought “lol that was easysauce”, you probably did it the unintended way.
I recommend going back and doing the box how the creator intended.