Your program is the wrong way to do this. For 1 mil + guesses, C is the right way to go, but for 10k you can just use a shell script: for i in `seq 1111 9999` ; do echo "password $i" | netcat server.com 30002 ; done Why do I feel like I'm helping you cheat? On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > The instructions they give are: > > A daemon is listening on port 30002 and will give you the password for > bandit25 if given the password for bandit24 and a secret numeric 4-digit > pincode. There is no way to retrieve the pincode except by going through > all of the 10000 combinaties, called brute-forcing. > > I figure I'd netcat to the port a file with the bandit24's password and > the pincodes and .... I still have to investigate man more > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Mark Phillips < > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > >> Mike, >> >> I don't think the program you found prints anything. What were the actual >> instructions from Bandit? >> >> Mark >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:22 AM, druid001 . wrote: >> >>> Can't help, but what a coincidence, I just started bandit last night! >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Michael Havens >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I need to get every four digit combination as part of the next >>>> challenge in bandit. I'm not a programmer so I googled for a solution. >>>> Please, how do I run this program? >>>> >>>> int main(int argc, char** argv){ >>>> int a,b,c,d; >>>> >>>> for(a=1; a<5; a++){ >>>> for(b=1; b<5; b++){ >>>> for(c=1; c<5; c++){ >>>> for(d=1; d<5; d++){ >>>> if(!(a==b || a==c || a==d || b==c || b==d || c==d)) >>>> printf("%d%d%d%d >>>> ",a,b,c,d); >>>> } >>>> } >>>> } >>>> } >>>> >>>> return 0; >>>> } >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Love, sex, food, friendship, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a >>> cold beer are all well and good, but never forget that the universe is >>> determined to kill you by whatever means necessary. >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Todd Millecam