I am playing with overthewire's bandit wargame. In Level 18, the bashrc file is configured in such a way that, it will immediately log out users who try to log in, after verifying password of-course. For example:
ssh bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
does not work. Users will be immediately logout. So, I tried with scp, the password is incorrect.
scp bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org:2220/home/bandit18/readme .
Even though I manage to successfully log in using the password I have. Finally the following command works, I don't know about this either.
ssh bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220 "cat ~/readme"
How come, "cat ˜/readme" does the trick, read the file without login or whats procedure here?
So my questions are: 1) How come the same password is valid for ssh but not for scp? 2) How come ssh does not work, but ssh with the cat command specified works?
Thanks.
PS: If any wants here's the password: kfBf3eYk5BPBRzwjqutbbfE887SVc5Yd
scp is working: scp -P 2220 bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org:/home/bandit18/readme .
.bashrc contains exit 0 so bash exited immediately after you login via ssh:
> ssh bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220 "tail -n 2 .bashrc"
This is a OverTheWire game server. More information on http://www.overthewire.org/wargames
bandit18@bandit.labs.overthewire.org's password:
echo 'Byebye !'
exit 0