Unix 06
This exercise is one of our challenges to help you learn more about Unix/Linux
In this challenge, you will log in with the username and password pentesterlab
. The goal is to find a key stored in an environment variable defined using the export
command in a .bashrc
file. When users start a bash shell, the .bashrc
file is loaded, and it can be used to define aliases and set environment variables, which may contain sensitive information like credentials or API secrets.
Given that the system has numerous users, manually checking each .bashrc
file would be laborious. Instead, you will use the find
command to locate all .bashrc
files on the system. Then, you will use grep
to search these files for the export
command and further filter the results to find the specific environment variable PTLAB_KEY
. This approach will efficiently pinpoint the required key and complete the challenge.