Level 9

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SSH: ssh [email protected] -p 2220

Challenge URL: https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit10.html

Task

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, preceded by several = characters.

Solution

Let'see the files present:

bandit9@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt

file command can be used to verify the type of file.

bandit9@bandit:~$ file data.txt
data.txt: data

Use strings to print human readable content from a file and pass it to grep with "==" (mentioned in the task):

strings data.txt | grep "=="

One liner: strings data.txt | grep "=="