OverTheWire: Bandit Level 8

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1 min readMar 19, 2019

http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/bandit9.html

Level Goal

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once

Use ssh to login the server with the following information.

  • Username: bandit8
  • Password: cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV
  • Host: bandit.labs.overthewire.org
  • Port: 2220
$ ssh bandit8@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
This is a OverTheWire game server. More information on http://www.overthewire.org/wargames
bandit8@bandit.labs.overthewire.org's password:
cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV

Let’s find the password for the next level.

bandit8@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt
bandit8@bandit:~$ sort data.txt | uniq -c | grep '^ *1 '
1 UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR
bandit8@bandit:~$

Got it!

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