For those stuck with m***ed:
It is not a rabbit hole but definitely another type of rodent.
When you figure that out dg may be the key.
When you’re in trouble be mindful of how you are going to escape.
■■■, I don’t find the password for the ***g user ****n. neither on the site nor in rockyou. I see this as my only way in. I don’t get the comment with the **S and dont find anything related to its developers, i.e. don’t know how to access this. please send me a nudge, wasted all day on that.
Finally user. Foothold is a long journey. Somehow my exploit is working locally but it doesn’t work against remote machine. Thanks to @polarbearer for the help.
User is easier than foothold. Need some rest before take the root.
Finally after “travelling” on a massive rabbithole, finally arrived at the correct root.
Thank you @fr0ster and @b3nn for the guidance.
Tip: Priv esc is easy if you enumerate well. If you think you got root and root.txt is missing, step back and don’t push further. I went on a massive rabbithole because I got a root but was actually a rabbithole root.
Working my way forward with this box. Still haven’ completely figured how d***g works. I mean I can trigger it with exactly one “switch” and will search now for more switches, not understanding the output yet.
Not asking for nudges but one thing I’d need to know. Do I need to use an actual R** client or is that a rabbit hole / working in a different manner?