Overthewire-Bandit Level 3

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Bandit Level 3

Level Goal The password for the next level is stored in a hidden file in the inhere directory.

Commands you may need to solve this level ls , cd , cat , file , du , find

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SSH

ssh bandit3@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220

Command :

Show display the hidden file within the folder. Use du

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ du -ah /home/bandit3/inhere

Output:

4.0K    /home/bandit3/inhere/...Hiding-From-You
8.0K    /home/bandit3/inhere

Show hidden file within a folder using File command

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ 

ls -al

Output:

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root    4096 Oct 14 09:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root    root    4096 Oct 14 09:26 ..
-rw-r----- 1 bandit4 bandit3   33 Oct 14 09:26 ...Hiding-From-You

Find Hidden Files Recursively

This command searches the current directory (.) and all subdirectories for files or directories where the name starts with a dot.

find . -name ".*"

The output will include the current directory (.) and the parent directory (..).

Find Only Hidden Files (excluding . and ..)

To list only hidden files (regular files, not directories) while excluding the standard . (current) and .. (parent) directory entries, and searching recursively:

find . -type f -name ".[^.]*"

-type f: Specifies the search should only return regular files.

-name “.[^.]*”: Matches filenames that begin with a dot, followed by any character except another dot.

Find Hidden Files and Directories in the Current Directory Only

To restrict the search to the current directory only, use the -maxdepth 1 option:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name ".*"

-maxdepth 1: Limits the search to a depth of one level, meaning only the current directory is searched.

Example:

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ 

find . -maxdepth 1 -name ".*"

Output:

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./...Hiding-From-You

Find Only Hidden Directories

To find and list only hidden directories in the current and subdirectories:

find . -type d -name ".*"

-type d: Restricts the search results to directories.

# To display the content of the hidden file with special characters. Use Cat – ‘'

bandit3@bandit:~/inhere$ 

cat -- '...Hiding-From-You'

Output:

2WmrDFRmJIq3IPxneAaMGhap0pFhF3NJ