Manual Exploitation

 Now this was a little misleading when they said this. I thought we would be going out and brute forcing or something like that. But instead, we used hydra and Metasploit to manually gain root access to while I expected more it was still really cool and let's face it we all should be using the tools out there. I mean it's always good to have a base knowledge of how to do it if the tools become unavailable, but tools are there for a reason. One of the biggest aside from convenience is consistency.



This ^ is the hydra code.













And this ^ is me gaining root access again.

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