Pico CTF (Chrono)

Chrono

AUTHOR: MUBARAK MIKAIL

Description

How to automate tasks to run at intervals on linux servers? Use ssh to connect to this server: Server: saturn.picoctf.net Port: 50213 Username: picoplayer Password: ekj2GJuiv4

Solution

This was an easy one, It tested ones understanding of directories and linux in general.

1. First ssh to the challenge using the given creds. The ssh port is different on each spawn so you have to use the port provided after launching the challenge. ssh picoplayer@saturn.picoctf.net -p 50213 -vvv I always append -vvv the -vvv option is used to increase the verbosity level of the SSH client. It enables detailed debugging and provides extensive output, including debugging messages and information about the SSH connection process. After connecting you are logged in as picoplayer Now we have to understand where folders on a linux system are stored
2. Now use cd ..
3. Again repeat cd ..
   
4. You could also use the command cd ../..
5. We are now able to see the folders available.
6. Interesting enough is the challenge folder
7. Now lets cd challenge and ls -la
8. We see an intesting dile metadata.json
9. Now lets cat the metadata.json
10. And we see our flag.