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OVERTHEWIRE – BANDIT LEVEL 0 -> LEVEL 1

The goal is to find the password that is stored in the file named readme found in the home directory

Ok, now let’s find the file and move to the next level.

The file is located in the home directory. By deafult when you login into a Linux machine your current working directory is your home directory (more info here). In order to check if we are in the home directory we use the pwd command.

The next thing we need to do is to list the directory using the ls command.

We found the file, now how do we see it’s contents? cat command comes to the rescue.

We got the password, let’s move to the next level