Description

The home directory contains two files: passwords.old and passwords.new. The password for bandit18 is the single line that changed between them.

Overview

• diff compares two files line by line and shows what was added, removed, or changed.
• Lines prefixed with > are in the second file but not the first; one such line is the new password.

Solution

diff passwords.old passwords.new

• The > line in the diff output is the new password; verify by trying to SSH as bandit18.

Password

hga5tuuCLF6fFzUpnagiMN8ssu9LFrdg