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Quote from elasolova

Mar 06, 2013 - 16:51:58

There seems to be a bug in the bandit section solution validation. I just solved bandit10 and I wanted to try submission from the boxes here. I got a WONG reply. Then, I wanted to submit the solution manually and now I get "you already solved this challenge" msg from the terminal but I got no points.

Same here for vortex13... fix it

It is not meant to enter ssh solutions into the warflag/webchall solutions.

I think there is even a bug; when you enter solutions for ssh challenges there, the chall is blocked from the netcat solving

I will take care of this tommorow.

Thank you for the feedback!
gizmore

Great, thanks

The boxes are then misleading. Perhaps, you should not put any boxes for ssh challenges.

The confusion might now be fixed, at least better, as you can only enter solutions for webchalls.
Adding boxes for wargames is the way it works, though. Maybe a special view for webchalls only would be nice.

BTW, you can meanwhile see details for warboxes on a site more nicely, if you click "Warboxes" in their site details.

/70-wargames-on-OverTheWire.org.html

Follow the instructions in the infobox to reveal rankings and challenge overview on a warbox.
Today i fixed the quickjumps for switching between the single boxes.

Happy Challenging
gizmore

Thanks for this great feature Gizmore !

I notice a little "solvers count" error.
For example, in levels entry:
https://www.wechall.net/3-levels-on-Bandit.html => bandit1 = 18 solvers
https://www.wechall.net/19-solvers-for-bandit1.html => 22 solvers

For example, in wargames entry:
https://www.wechall.net/70-wargames-on-OverTheWire.org.html => bandit = 21 players / krypton = 19 players
https://www.wechall.net/3-players-on-Bandit.html => 22 players (including cls "activity" error)
https://www.wechall.net/5-players-on-Krypton.html => 19 players (including cls "activity" error)

By the way, i noticed that my wartoken changes. Is it an "automatic week-end" change (i don't remember reading something about it) ?.

Thanks again for your excellent job !

Quote from phoenix1204

Mar 09, 2013 - 10:21:54

By the way, i noticed that my wartoken changes. Is it an "automatic week-end" change (i don't remember reading something about it) ?.

Does it still change? I know gizmore was experimenting with a dynamic token system but I for one voted against it. I prefer my token to be static because I can then keep it in a file with my solutions rather than query wechall each time I want to rank up

sabre

I think i fixed the inconsistencies. Please note that it can take a while to normalize until the challs get solved again.

About the tokens:

It was planned to stop mass solving for others by one-time-tokens and one-by-one solving.
Meanwhile i think most would prefer less harsh methods, and prefer convinience.

The following options will be available to warboxes soon:

1. "Delete token on success" (will be kept disabled until further noticed, and will be optional for siteadmins)
2. "Multisolve" (Solve all levels below a level instantly at once, optional) - unlocked soon

PS: It might be that some got their tokens disabled in an unlucky timerframe. If you get "Invalid Token" grab a new one from profile. The token recycle will be disabled until further noticed.

PPS: Thank you very much for your compliments Phoenix.
Implemting this was quite trivial, but the ingenious and original idea was from epoch_qwert
Scoreproxy + identd was probably the best idea since the launch of wechall!

gizmore

hi,
i use putty (for windows) under overthewire but how i can send validation on wechall , anyone know wich command need to send or config need for automatic validation with putty ??
i try (echo -e "cls\nmytoken"; cat) | nc 176.28.31.8 4141 - but not working ?
or another program like putty ?
thanks for answer
best regard

Your bash command suggests you send the string "cls\mytoken" instead of the file contents.
In that case the error message "invalid token!" should appear.