Underthewire Century 0->1 Write Up

Hello World,

As I promised in my previous post, today we will begin the journey of learning PowerShell through century wargame on?Underthewire.tech.

This level is the first level of Century Wargame and its aim is to enter into the game.

About the game

The game is played by connecting to a server using SSH(Secure Shell) network protocol. There are plenty of ssh clients out there, using which we can connect to the server and start playing around. For this write up I will use?Cygwin, which is a collection of open source tools that allows Unix or Linux applications to be compiled and run on Windows Operating System.

Getting Started

To get the initial credentials for this game:

1. Access underthewire.tech and connect to their slack channel,
2. Go to #StartHere,
3. Scroll to the top and look for century1 username and password,

To connect to the server:

1. Open a terminal or any other ssh client, in my case cygwin terminal,
2. Use the following command to connect:

ssh [email protected] -p 22        

3. Enter the password you got from slack when you are prompted for it

4. Finally, if your terminal’s path looks like the one below, you have successfully connected to the server.

PS C:\users\century1\desktop>         

From now on ….

For the whole century wargame series we will use the following credentials:

• Host:?century.underthewire.tech?,
• Username:?century<X>, X representing level ,
• SSH port:?22?, and
• Password:?from previous level.

Till next time, keep learning and get your hands dirty!

Resources:

1.?underthewire.tech/century

2.?underthewire.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-11xkgkxj5-VmAGL_ofeIAQ2hNXuu_irg#/shared-invite/email

3.?www.cygwin.com/

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