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PRABAKARANRAMAMURTHY
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22 days ago
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Trick or Treat on Specter Street: Serpent Sanctum

So for this challenge we have got hint: (serpent-statue) $ hint         Maybe the fang can be in two places at once... Tried to copy both fang.key and fang2.key to statue folder but it did not a...
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  • PRABAKARANRAMAMURTHY's avatar
    PRABAKARANRAMAMURTHY
    21 days ago

    Ahh yes. That worked. created a symlink from the 'statue' folder - : ln -sf ../vault/store/fang.key fang.key (execute this symlink from statue folder), and it worked. Next I am stuck in Python jail. You managed to solve it GuyIncognito​ ?

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autom8on
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21 days ago

Unless they've changed how the lab works, you may find it very illuminating to look in the /tmp directory each time you're attempting a task... 😜 also, there are (or were) some "interesting" choices in file system permissions, if you go browsing around the filesystem when they aren't expecting you to... 😎

* Insert serious discussion here about whether the point of labs is to do it they way they are intending you to (though how would you know, if it's a CTF'esque one?), or just to get the points in the quickest/easiest way possible...  We are hackers, right? 😆