Scenario "The Command Line Murders"

[fduran]

Discussions for the Command Line Murders scenario

[Artem-Ushenko]

I found 3 coincidences in memberships and it is correct solution, but based on clues it must be 4 coincidences

[JingYenLoh]

Since the md5sum of the solution is given, it is rather straightforward to brute force each name's md5sum and arrive at the solution in an unintended manner 🤣. Perhaps a different test might be useful?

[sbonds]

The 20 minutes allowed didn't really seem like enough time to do this the "correct" way. Perhaps sending a warning to the user in the terminal that time is ending and allowing a command to reset the clock could be useful? This would prevent idle people wasting time but allow slow investigators to continue working.

[sbonds]

OK, I figured out that the limit on retries for unpaid accounts is only if you were unsuccessful, which makes the time limit much more tolerable since I can just try again. :-)

[fduran]

@sbonds thanks for the feedback and yes time is a bit tight but you can try as many times as you want. Also there's a timer on the running scenario web page. I think is not hard to add a time warning showing in the command line, and having a way to add more time is something to consider, thanks for the idea!

[SiegeSailor]

I was shocked when I saw the number of files. It must be fun reading the story, but I didn't think I could finish it within 20 minutes. So I did tail +8 people | awk '{print $1}' > /home/admin/agent/people.txt and then ran:

I didn't find any name that yielded the given answer. Did I do anything wrong?