wargames | Clone of the WOPR from WarGames in C | Telnet library

I tried downloading the example interactive problem number guessing problem. They offer a local testing tool in the Description tab, a python solution in the Analysis tab, a interactive_runner.py that runs both scripts simultaneously.

After saving the solution in a solution.py, I can run this on shell successfully with: python3 interactive_runner.py python3 local_testing_tool.py 0 -- python3 solution.py.

The problem is I can't debug it using VSCode. I tried putting all 3 files in one folder and using the following launch.json:

I am playing bandit from overthewire.org; getting to level 10 requires me to find strings preceded with several "=" characters (equal sign) (I interpreted "several" as "two or more") in a text file.

The target lines look like this:

========== passwordhere123

i.e. ten equal signs, one space, and a string of letters and numbers, followed by line break (not sure which exact type).

These lines should be excluded:

c========== EqualSignDidNotStartLine

= only-one-equal-sign

equalsign=somewhereElse

No equal signs at all

The original data did not contain any lines preceded by less than ten but more than one ='s; there are some +'s (plus signs) littered in the text, but +'s and ='s are never in the same line.

The bandit server runs some kind of linux @ 4.18.12 (uname -r), GNU bash 4.4 (from man page), and GNU grep 2.27 (from man page).

The raw data contains non-readable parts, so it is fed through strings first to leave only human-readable strings fro grep to process.

From what I learned, grep's default regex engine (BRE, thanks Casimir) should not be too different from PCRE's. * is still a quantifier (match the preceding pattern zero times or more), not as a standalone pattern meaning "anything, zero times or more". This confuses me in grep's behavior below.

Edit: per this chart, "+" needs to be escaped (i.e.\+) in BRE. It does not help though. I will make some more testing strings to try to decipher what's going on.

Here's the command I tried:

I'm working on a school project and i need some suggestions. It is a HTML/PHP/SQL project where users can give their input about gaming experiences. As an admin you have to be able to see the names of the users that chose for certain gaming categories. This needs to be showed in tables using PHP and MySQL.

I have now finished this page, it is working like a charm and i can see all the users input. But the problem is that i have about 600 lines of code since i have 12 different div's with MySQL statements and tables.

Currently my code is seperated into 3 parts, the html select dropdown, 12 different div's with query's that generates tables, and jquery to show / hide the tables based on the select dropdown

I am hoping someone could give me a suggestion on how to shorten my code, since 600 lines of code is crazy and i am aware that it could be shorter but i just can't figure out how.

The HTML Select:

i'm currently doing the bandit wargames from overthewire.org (for those of you who don't know it's a website with different tasks that you get to do in order to improve your hacking skills). i did them before but i got stuck pretty early and i blasted through them using spoilers. the good part about that is that it leaves a lot of room for, let's call it, 'replayability'. xD right now i'm at bandit20 and i need to use an executable file:

I am building a Tic Tac Toe game in which the user can play a computer, or computers can play each other. While building the AI I am running into the below error. How can I debug this? I understand it is to do with a loop somewhere but I can't find it.

First of all, I'm new to PHP and coding in general.

I'm currently creating a web application which is intentionally vulnerable to teach students about web based vulnerabilities. The web app consists of levels with each level containing a different vulnerability.

On the current level, I am trying to set a cookie name "Authenticated" with a value of "0" when a user successfully logs into the level. When they reach the page, they receive a PHP error that they are not authenticated. I want them to be able to intercept the page request, change the value to "1", and then as a result of this changed value, receive a PHP echo containing the password for the next level.

Here is my main page (level6.php):

This is the C code that I am compiling:

I'm playing a game in a terminal. It uses ssh connection and have a different pair of user and password for each level.

I use my bash aliases to store those pairs, i.e. I have an alias for each level where I call a bash function with 2 parameters: password and number of level.