Finished the box. Have mixed feelings about this. The foothold was okay, there was a common framework which had something right out the box that you had to use, enum would have lead you there eventually. Once I attained foothold, user… yeah, overlooked the simple stuff. Lets just say I have a permanent alias now for listing thing in directories.
Root: I went all catty wompus and apologize for dorking the box twice, but it was an experience.
root@laboratory:/root#id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1000(dexter)