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Mission 0x02

🔎 Solution​

After connecting via SSH as sophia, the next task was to locate the password file for user angela:

sophia@venus:~$ cat mission.txt 
################
# MISSION 0x02 #
################

## EN ##
The user angela has saved her password in a file but she does not remember where ... she only remembers that the file was called whereismypazz.txt

To locate a file in Linux, I used the find command. Redirecting 2>/dev/null hides permission-related error messages that would otherwise clutter the output:

sophia@venus:~$ find / -name "whereismypazz.txt" 2>/dev/null
/share/whereismypazz.txt

Reading the file revealed Angela's password:

sophia@venus:~$ cat /usr/share/whereismypazz.txt
oh5p9gAABugHBje

I then SSH'ed into the machine as angela:

ssh angela@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000

Finally, viewing flagz.txt gave the flag for Mission 0x02, ready to move on to Mission 0x03:

angela@venus:~$ cat flagz.txt 
8===SjMYBmMh4bk49TKq7PM8===D~~

🚩Flag​

8===SjMYBmMh4bk49TKq7PM8===D~~