UnderTheWire Century Guide

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Access

SSH: ssh century7@century.underthewire.tech -p 22

Password: 197

Info

The password for Century8 is in a readme file somewhere within the contacts, desktop, documents, downloads, favorites, music, or videos folder in the user’s profile.

NOTE:
– The password will be lowercase no matter how it appears on the screen.

Theory

To get the password the instructions say to just try and find the file with the password somewhere around the computer system. So we don't have much to do in the theory other than use directory command stuff and the one to read the contents of the readme file:

cd ..
dir
Get-Content

Solution

Now that we are in the desktop, we'll go a level down to where documents, videos, and all the other folders are, and look for any clues:

PS C:\users\century7\desktop> cd ..

PS C:\users\century7> dir


    Directory: C:\users\century7


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Desktop
d-r---        8/30/2018   3:10 AM                Documents
d-----        1/22/2025  10:36 PM                Downloads
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Favorites
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Links
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Music
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Pictures
d-----        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Saved Games
d-r---        7/16/2016   1:23 PM                Videos

And it looks like the Downloads folder is the last one edited out of all folders last edited in either 2016 or 2018 (nine years ago!):

PS C:\users\century7> cd Downloads

PS C:\users\century7\Downloads> dir


    Directory: C:\users\century7\Downloads


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        8/30/2018   3:29 AM              7 Readme.txt


PS C:\users\century7\Downloads> Get-Content Readme.txt
7points

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