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Rooting challenge 1
Rooting challenge 1
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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.
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