OVERTHEWIRE – BANDIT LEVEL 0

In March 2021 I’ve switched from Windows to Linux.

A good friend of mine suggested to start with Kubuntu, which I did. The thing is I didn’t want to relay only on the GUI ( Graphical User Interface ), I wanted to learn how to use the command line as well.

I am more of a “10 hours of trial and error will save you 30 mins of reading the documentation” type of guy (working on changing that) and after many google searches and youtube videos I came across the war-games on OverTheWire.

OVERTHEWIRE – BANDIT OVERVIEW

This war-game is designed for people who are starting to use Linux/UNIX environments and help you learn the basic Linux commands.

The objective of the game is to find the password file, which will give you access to the next level.

It has 34 levels (at this time) and I will try to walk you through each level.

OVERTHEWIRE – BANDIT LEVEL 0

The goal of this level is to connect via SSH .

You are given the following info in order to do that:

HOST: bandit.labs.overthewire.org

PORT: 2220

USERNAME: bandit0

PASSWORD: bandit0

Open the terminal and enter the following command:

Type yes, that you wish to connect

You will be asked for your password once the connection is established. You will not see the cursor move or any characters input when you type your password.

Hit enter and if the password is typed correctly you should see the screen below:

If you wish to end the ssh connection type exit and hit enter in the command line.

More info on how to to use SSH can be found here