Mission 0x08

🔎 Solution

After logging in as eleanor, the next step was to locate the password for the user victoria. The mission specifies that the password is stored in a file owned by the user violin:

eleanor@venus:~$ cat mission.txt 
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# MISSION 0x08 #
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## EN ##
The user victoria has left her password in a file in which the owner is the user violin.

To search for files based on ownership, I used find with the -user filter. Redirecting errors keeps the output clean:

eleanor@venus:~$ find / -type f -user violin 2>/dev/null
/usr/local/games/yo

Reading that file revealed the password:

eleanor@venus:~$ cat /usr/local/games/yo
pz8OqvJBFxH0cSj

With the recovered password, I connected as victoria:

ssh victoria@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000

Then I grabbed the flag:

victoria@venus:~$ cat flagz.txt 
8===NWyTFi9LLqVsZ4OnuZYN===D~~

🚩Flag

8===NWyTFi9LLqVsZ4OnuZYN===D~~