Ever wonder what Linux version is running on your machine? I commonly connect to friends’ machines, or to one of my servers, and I have no clue what’s on it. This can make a huge difference, as some distributions use apt, some use dnf or yum, and some use something else entirely. Luckily, there are a few commands that answer this in a second.
In this article, we’re going to cover /etc/os-release, uname, lsb_release, and hostnamectl.
In my last post, I walked us through connecting to OverTheWire’s Bandit server, and completing level 0 and level 1. Following along with the previous article is a prerequisite to following this article, as you’ll need to get the password from the file in level 1 first.
You can view my last post about this by following this link.
Continue reading OverTheWire Bandit Part 2OverTheWire is a website with two games. One is “Wargames”, which is a level based game, the other game is “Warzone”, which is more of a free-for-all hacking game.
In this series of articles, I’m going to give a walkthrough of how to complete the “Bandit” series of levels on their website.
Continue reading OverTheWire Bandit Part 1
