Rooting challenge 1
Rooting challenge 1
bl4ckc4t | 11857 Reads | Description:
A dangerous hacker called ezekiel has been on rampage destroying hundreds of sites. Help stop his destruction by aiding us get his password. We know he is running linux so the password file is in the normal spot, but we just cant find any way to root him. We got his IP: 69.13.37.42 Now you need to do the rest. Thanks again.
Your goal is to get the password on Ezekiel's box. Type help to get the commands you can use. you have: help, telnet, ftp, and nmap
I would start with nmap, just type nmap "ip" (without the quotes) and you will see open ports. From here, you should know how to connect. If not, then try out the commands you can use.
Most of you know the normal directory of the passwd file is /etc/
You start out in /home/Ezekiel, so what do we want to do? Change the directory. Remember that you want to get to the passwd file. The command to change directory is cd
Figure out how to get to the /etc/ folder. Some of you know about the cat command and its ability to let you read text in a file.
ghost 18 years ago
I completed this last night and i thought your article was a little low on help, but perfect to be pushed in the right direction. A very good concept for an article imho:)
ghost 18 years ago
WAY TOO MUCH HELP ut all in the wrong places, I think peoples main problems are the fact that the commands in the challenge are wrong.
bl4ckc4t 18 years ago
pr1nc3, your not supposed to root his REAL box, just the simulated one provided..
AldarHawk 18 years ago
I just want to say that CAT is NOT a real FTP command. the true command should have been get <file> "| more" to view the file in an FTP environment. Now if you did it as SSH I would have agreed with CAT.
ghost 18 years ago
yep aldar is right.. i wasnt getting it either but he helped me :) and btw hehe the ratings look like a middle finger:P
ghost 18 years ago
i did the challenge easy because i didnt know you couldnt use cat in ftp :p took me about 2 minutes. See, sometimes is pays to not know as much as others.
ghost 18 years ago
I did the challenge the lazy way. It took me 30 seconds to do it (I swear). I just looked into the source w/ notepad… *always look at the source!
AldarHawk 18 years ago
and the finger grows :P was a well written program but I would have prefered a more realistic root. But that is just me B)
ghost 18 years ago
can't get the linux version to run… says permission denied or just doesn't do anything…
ghost 18 years ago
everytime i try any command on the ftp it closes the connection, and the telnet doesnt work
ghost 17 years ago
root@localhost:~$ nmap 69.13.37.42 ftp>open (to)69.13.37.42 200-Welcome to Ezekiels FTP Server… 200- Current directory: /home/ezekiel ftp>[any command] [/anydirectory] Connection Lost..ftp>
what am i doing wrong?