Sysadmin Linux Part 2 - Level 6

Find the password

This one require us to find architect password.
We’ll start with the same way then the previous one with greping the word architect.

cd /
grep -ri architect *| less

One of the top results shows up

etc/fstab:#//TheMAtrix/phone  /media/Matrix  cifs 
username=architect,password=$(base64 -d ”RkxBRy14QXFXMnlKZzd4UERCV3VlVGdqd05jMW5WWQo=”),iocharset=utf8,sec=ntlm  
0  0

We can see that architect’s password is encrypted in base64.

A quick google search let’s us know how to decrypt base64

echo RkxBRy14QXFXMnlKZzd4UERCV3VlVGdqd05jMW5WWQo | base64 -d
> FLAG-xAqW2yJg7xPDBWueTgjwNc1nVY