[ianbishop]

Ah man, I couldn't agree more. I've learned a ton just messing around with the first few, though getting this was a real bummer:

Run till exit from #0 run (str=0xffece7ec "cat /home/level04/.password") at level03.c:53 cat: /home/level04/.password: Permission denied

Ah well, a sign to go to sleep. Tomorrow I'll have to learn more things to figure it out if it's still up.

[jsharpe]

setuid doesn't work inside of GDB. You have to run the program without a debugger to get level04 permissions.

(Disclaimer: I haven't succeeded yet.)

[mirkules]

I mostly live inside a Java world or XCode world, so GDB is almost a totally foreign concept to me - and I definitely welcome the challenge. Never really had to look at assembly before either, so this is a fun learning experience.