Level 0 ssh bandit0@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
Level 1 used cat readme to veiw readme file
Password : boJ9jbbUNNfktd78OOpsqOltutMc3MY1
Level 2 used cat< - to view dashed file
Password : CV1DtqXWVFXTvM2F0k09SHz0YwRINYA9
Level 3 used cat spaces\ in\ this\ filename we can also use cat "spaces in this filename"
Password :UmHadQclWmgdLOKQ3YNgjWxGoRMb5luK
Level 4 cd inhere/ ls (file was hidden) ls -a cat .hidden
Password : pIwrPrtPN36QITSp3EQaw936yaFoFgAB
Level 5 used file inhere/* to get the type of each file.* inhere/-file00: data inhere/-file01: data inhere/-file02: data inhere/-file03: data inhere/-file04: data inhere/-file05: data inhere/-file06: data inhere/-file07: ASCII text inhere/-file08: data inhere/-file09: data then used cat< -file07 to read password.
Password: koReBOKuIDDepwhWk7jZC0RTdopnAYKh
Level 6 find . -size 1033c ! -executable to get the file location (./maybehere07/.file2) cat ./maybehere07/.file2 Password: DXjZPULLxYr17uwoI01bNLQbtFemEgo7
Level 7 find / -user bandit7 -group bandit6 -size 33c for most of the file it showed permission denied, and then i looked for the read only file. /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password then i extract the password using cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/bandit7.password Password: HKBPTKQnIay4Fw76bEy8PVxKEDQRKTzs
Level 8 used grep "millionth" data.txt output was : millionth cvX2JJa4CFALtqS87jk27qwqGhBM9plV
level 9 cat data.txt | sort | uniq -c -u 1 UsvVyFSfZZWbi6wgC7dAFyFuR6jQQUhR the sort command sort the txt file so that same strings are adjacent to each other and with the help of uniq command it gives the desired output -c count the number of repeated line -u prints the unique line
Level 10 used strings data.txt | grep -F "=" the string command prints the human readable text and grep -F search for the patter as fixed strings.
Password: truKLdjsbJ5g7yyJ2X2R0o3a5HQJFuLk
Level 11 used base64 data.txt -d The password is IFukwKGsFW8MOq3IRFqrxE1hxTNEbUPR base64 command use to encode and decode the data from base64 file. -d use to decode the text in ASCII -e encode it.