OverTheWire — Bandit27

When I was playing with OverTheWire Lab bandit27 => bandit28, I felt that something was missing, preventing me from completing it. The lab is straightforward: there is a Git repository hosted on the local machine on port 2220 via SSH. We need to clone that repository into a newly created folder inside the tmp directory and then traverse the files to find the flag. Online solutions and write-ups weren’t much help. Then it clicked that our normal `git clone` command was trying to communicate with port 22 because the repo is hosted via SSH. However, the actual problem statement indicates that the Git repo is hosted on port 2220. This was the missing piece of the puzzle.

The following command was the key to solving the lab:Observed that we need to append the custom port number to fulfill this request. Otherwise, the general request will attempt to communicate with port 22, where Git is not running, resulting in an error message.