Done it, learnt a few interesting things.
Foothold: someone says is ctfy, someone not…well, I think it depends a lot on your mindset. If you are one who thinks that an easy machine should spoonfeed everything to go ahead, then yes, you can think it’s ctf.
If you think that a machine, whatever level should be, must drive you in a learning path, then it is not at all.
User: wysiwyg
Root: i literally spent hours trying to understand why i was failing despite doing exactly what was needed…then eventually i discovered that gaining a working shell sometimes is not enough…