Linux Challenges Tryhackme Writeup

Room : https://tryhackme.com/room/linuxctf

Note: This room is for Premium Members Only. who purchased THM premium membership.

The Linux Challenges room on the TryHackMe platform is great for brushing up your Linux skills. This write-up goes through finding flags on a Linux Machine using different commands, services, and tools found in Linux Operating System. We will be going through the entire room and finding flags hidden throughout the systems which will lead to the completion of each task systematically.

I recommend you folks try solving the challenges on your own and if you get stuck somewhere you can always come back here.

Objectives

1. Learn to use commands such as find, locate, ls, grep, tar, etc.
2. Understand Cron jobs, MOTDs, locate hidden directories and files on the system.
3. Learn to SSH into different user account using private keys.
4. Understand system files, paths, variables and file permissions.
5. Learn to transfer files using SCP and remote desktop via GUI etc.

Task 1- Linux Challenges Introduction

First things first, we need to connect to the TryHackMe network to access our target machine. For…