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jcberlan
4 months agoBronze II
help with A Christmas Catastrophe: A Letter to Santa
I am in the scalation privileges part. Tried to create a symlink to /root/root.txt and to /root in /etc/letters/ waiting cron /etc/chmod.sh takes ownership with chmod 666 instruction and then extr...
netcat
Advocate
2 months agoIf I understand you correctly: You creating a symlink to /root/root.txt, and then you try to read that file using that symlink, as normal user. This will not work.
Your goal is not to create a symlink, but the token. That said, there are much easier ways (using the crontab method) to read the token.