I remember stumbling across overthewire.org quite a while ago and starting quite a few of the games simultaneously. I made my way through various parts of the different games, but eventually started losing track of my progress and never finished any of them. After feeling inspired to try my hand at war games again, I rediscovered the site and decided to take a more linear approach. I’m going to take the recommended course through the games and document my progress here, for no other reason than that hopefully the act of writing down the solutions might help me to retain the information.
The first game is bandit. Level 0 is simply the act of connecting to the server and finding the password for level 1 in the readme file. Simple enough.
bandit0@bandit:~$ ls
readme
bandit0@bandit:~$ cat readme
xxxxxxxxxxxx (actual password not shown)
bandit0@bandit:~$