UnderTheWire Century Guide

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Access

SSH: ssh century3@century.underthewire.tech -p 22

Password: invoke-webrequest443

Info

The password for Century4 is the number of files on the desktop.

Theory

To get the password, it's just counting the amount of files in there. You'll think this will be a really timely task, as counting is boring, good thing that we have the .Count property. We just need to list all the files and count them like this:

(Get-ChildItem -File).Count

Solution

Only thing we need to do is execute the command from the theory, although be careful when using the dir command, because it will list all the files and fill up your shell:

PS C:\users\century3\desktop> dir


    Directory: C:\users\century3\desktop


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1012
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1064
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1079
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1099
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1118
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1128
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1134
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM             33 countme1153
...

So if we just use the command we'll get the number of files, which is the password for the next level:

PS C:\users\century3\desktop> (Get-ChildItem -File).Count
123

And that's the password! Now we should be good to go to the next level.