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Chrono picoCTf 2023

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AUTHOR: MUBARAK MIKAIL

Description
How to automate tasks to run at intervals on linux servers?
Additional details will be available after launching your challenge instance.

Note: This challenge launches an instance on demand.


When we launch the instance and ssh to the relevant credentials given to us we are presented with a shell.

Based on the question prompt it had to be cron jobs.

After various attempts to access crontab itself, I tried looking inside /etc/crontab with the cat command and it had the flag prompt for my session:

picoCTF{your flag}

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