[Starting Point] Tier 0: Meow

	Difficulty		IP Address		Room Link
	Very Easy		10.129.69.231		Tier 0: Meow

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[ What does the acronym VM stand for? ]

Virtual Machine

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[ What tool do we use to interact with the operating system in order to start our VPN connection? ]

Terminal

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[ What service do we use to form our VPN connection? ]

openvpn

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[ What is the abreviated name for a tunnel interface in the output of your VPN boot-up sequence output? ]

We can use ifconfig to find out:

Name of tunnel interface: tun

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[ What tool do we use to test our connection to the target? ]

Ping

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[ What is the name of the script we use to scan the target’s ports? ]

nmap

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[ What service do we identify on port 23/tcp during our scans? ]

We can run a basic nmap scan with:

sudo nmap 10.129.69.231 

The service running on port 23 is telnet.

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[ What username ultimately works with the remote management login prompt for the target? ]

Let’s try connecting to the telnet server:

telnet 10.129.69.231 

We are prompted to log in with a username. Let’s try a common username:

root

Nice it works! The username that works is: root

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[ Submit root flag ]

The root flag can be found in /root: