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Level 6 - Level 7

Challenge Information Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit) Difficulty: Easy Category: Linux Overview The password for the next level is stored somewhere on the server and has all of the following properties: owned by user bandit7 owned by group bandit6 33 bytes in size Solution SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level. ssh -p 2220 bandit6@bandit.labs.overthewire.org Use find command with -size flag to specify file size. Use -exec flag to execute ls -al {} \; that gives the permissions and grep lines with โ€œbandit7 bandit6โ€. ...

February 13, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 127 words ยท Ryan Jin

Level 5 - Level 6

Challenge Information Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit) Difficulty: Easy Category: Linux Overview The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties: human-readable 1033 bytes in size not executable Solution SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level. ssh -p 2220 bandit5@bandit.labs.overthewire.org Use find command with -size flag to specify file size and -executable for files that have user have execute permission for. Then we can use file -i to find file with charset ascii. ...

February 10, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 115 words ยท Ryan Jin

Level 4 - Level 5

Challenge Information Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit) Difficulty: Easy Category: Linux Overview The password for the next level is stored in the only human-readable file in the inhere directory. Tip: if your terminal is messed up, try the โ€œresetโ€ command. Solution SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level. ssh -p 2220 bandit4@bandit.labs.overthewire.org Use file command with -i flag to see type of the files. Find the file with ascii charset. ...

February 10, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 98 words ยท Ryan Jin

Level 3 - Level 4

Challenge Information Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit) Difficulty: Easy Category: Linux Overview The password for the next level is stored in a hidden file in the inhere directory. Solution SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level. ssh -p 2220 bandit3@bandit.labs.overthewire.org Use cat command. Since filename contains spaces we need to escape them using \ cat ./--spaces\ in\ this\ filename-- Lessons Learned Using cat on filename with spaces. Tools Used ssh cat

February 10, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 73 words ยท Ryan Jin

Level 2 - Level 3

Challenge Information Platform: OverTheWire (Bandit) Difficulty: Easy Category: Linux Overview The password for the next level is stored in a file called --spaces in this filename-- located in the home directory Solution SSH into machine on port 2220 with password from previous level. ssh -p 2220 bandit2@bandit.labs.overthewire.org Use cat command. Since filename contains spaces we need to escape them using \ cat ./--spaces\ in\ this\ filename-- Lessons Learned Using cat on filename with spaces. Tools Used ssh cat

February 9, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 78 words ยท Ryan Jin