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This challenge is moderately dumb right now. Someone should develop an application that better emulates a shell entirely, and challenges are plugged into that with a .script file somehow. The shell application itself should be more realistic to a shell environment.
Ideally, I would use a session-oriented VPS solution, whether with a simple chroot or BSD jailshell, it could allow users to access real applications that release a password.