This module will teach you the VERY basics of interacting with the command line! The command line lets you execute commands. When you launch a terminal, it will execute a command line "shell", which will look like this:
hacker@dojo:~$
This is called the "prompt", and it's prompting you to enter a command. Let's take a look at what's going on here:
- The
hacker
in the prompt is the username of the current user. In the pwn.college DOJO environment, this is "hacker". - In the example above, the
dojo
part of the prompt is the hostname of the machine the shell is on (this reminder can be useful if you are a system administrator who deals with many machines on a daily basis, for example). In the example above, the hostname isdojo
, but in pwn.college, it will be derived from the name of the challenge you're attempting. - We will cover what
~
means later :-) - The
$
at the end of the prompt signifies thathacker
is not an administrative user. In much later modules in pwn.college, when you learn to use exploits to become the administrative user, you will see the prompt signify that by printing#
instead of$
, and you'll know that you've won!
Anyways, the prompt awaits your command. Move on to the first challenge to learn how to actually execute commands!
Lectures and Reading
Challenges
Ranking
This scoreboard reflects solves for challenges in this module after the module launched in this dojo.
Rank | Hacker | Badges | Score |