Great Machine! It was fun cracking it. But I didn’t get all the points. I submitted both the root and user flag but was unable to get full points. Does anyone know, why is it so?
Rooted
For those who had an issue with John not working, I tried loading the ‘file’ in johnny (after doing *2john) and displayed what you’re looking for.
Can anyone give me a little help? I discovered my weakness is enumeration because I’m stuck with www data
To get around in a Linux system you need a username and some sort of credentials. See if you can find potential usernames.
If you have found anything remotely interesting, have you tried to utilize it in some way? See if you can find credentials.
You only need ‘cat’ and ‘ls’ command at this stage. Until you find some username and credentials, then you need an additional tool to test your findings.
My first root own. I had a lot of help from all the comments scattered throughout but learned a lot that will be useful elsewhere Initial foothold, user1 and root were easy enough; user 2 was the challenge but once I started looking in the right place it got easier.