Bandit 5 → 6

OverTheWire Linux Progressive

Goal: find the human-readable password file of exactly 1033 bytes inside the inhere tree.

Approach

bandit5@bandit

bandit5@bandit:~$ cd inhere/
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ find -type f -size 1033c
./maybehere07/.file2
bandit5@bandit:~/inhere$ cat ./maybehere07/.file2
The password you are looking for is: <password>

PasswordHWasnPhtq9AVKe0dmk45nxy20cvUa6EGReveal

Why it works

find filters on inode metadata before ever touching file contents: -size 1033c targets an exact byte count (c for bytes) while -type f restricts the search to regular files. Stacking these predicates pinpoints a single file across a deep directory tree without reading any of them.