Writeup - OverTheWire Bandit4

This one is a little more tricky. The prompt tells us that the password is located in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory. There are several files, so examining each is possible, but a little clunky.

The first step after logging in is to cd into the inhere directory, and list the contents through ls. This will return a total of 11 files, but we know from the prompt that only one of these is human-readable (and is our password for the next level!).

As there are a few ways to solve this, I'm simply going to explain how I solved it - feel free to play around with it and see how many different ways you can figure it out!

Utilizing the file -- * command, I was able to get the terminal to list the file's datatypes, including one file that was "ASCII text." Then, utilizing what we learned from Bandit1, I used cat to access that file and got the password.

Good luck!

Check out this article to learn more about the "file" command.

Here's the man page for the file command.