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Mission 0x07

🔎 Solution​

After SSH’ing in as luna, the next objective was to locate a file that occupies exactly 6,969 bytes — that file contains eleanor’s password:

luna@venus:~$ cat mission.txt 
################
# MISSION 0x07 #
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## EN ##
The user eleanor has left her password in a file that occupies 6969 bytes.

I used find with the -size test. The suffix c means bytes, so -size 6969c matches files whose size is exactly 6,969 bytes:

luna@venus:~$ find / -size 6969c 2>/dev/null
/usr/share/moon.txt

Printing the file revealed the password:

luna@venus:~$ cat /usr/share/moon.txt
UNDchvln6Bmtu7b

With that credential I SSH’ed into eleanor:

ssh eleanor@venus.hackmyvm.eu -p 5000

Inside eleanor’s account I read the flag:

eleanor@venus:~$ cat flagz.txt 
8===Iq5vbyiQl4ipNrLDArjD===D~~

🚩Flag​

8===Iq5vbyiQl4ipNrLDArjD===D~~