Defcon 18 CTF quals writeup - Trivial 200

Trivial 200 was an evil blind VIM terminal you had to escape from.

Description: sheep@pwn21.ddtek.biz:6000 sheep go baaAaaA

One could simply SSH to the server with:

ssh -p 6000 sheep@pwn21.ddtek.biz # and use password baaAaaA

However, it appeared that the server was overloaded and most of the time SSH did not work. The solution is to connect to SSH continuously until it works with some shell scripting:

while true; do
  ssh -p6000 sheep@pwn21.ddtek.biz
done

Once connected, you get a black screen with nothing but rapidly discover you are in VIM text editor.