Over the Wire’s Bandit Challenge – Level 5
Level 05- bandit – overthewire
Level Instructions:
“The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties:
human-readable
1033 bytes in size
not executable”
bandit5@bandit:~$ ls
inhere
bandit5@bandit:~$ cd inhere
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ ls -la
total 88
drwxr-x--- 22 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 28 2017 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere00
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere01
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere02
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere03
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere04
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere05
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere06
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere07
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere08
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere09
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere10
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere11
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere12
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere13
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere14
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere15
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere16
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere17
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere18
drwxr-x--- 2 root bandit5 4096 Dec 28 2017 maybehere19
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ find . -type f -size 1033c ! -executable
./maybehere07/.file2
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ./maybehere07/.file2
DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7
Increasing in difficulty, this challenge presents 20 directories with many different files residing within each. Passing the ‘find’ command enables us to search the current directory for files 1033 bytes in size that are not executable.
I was on my right way. what i tried was: file . -name *file* -size 1033b, but this gave me an error:
find: unknown predicate `-file2′
What I don’t understand why do you use c in 1033c, shouldn’t it be 1033b, b for Bytes???
Hi t0v4,
Thanks for commenting. If you look into the man-page for the find command, it’ll give you a readout of the different character shortcuts for file size.
“`b’ for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used)
`c’ for bytes”