HTB TartarSauce: backuperer Follow-Up

I always watch IppSec’s videos on the retired box, because even if I completed the box, I typically learn something. Watching IppSec’s TartarSauce video yesterday left me with three things I wanted to play with a bit more in depth, each related to the backuperer script. First, the issue of a bash if statement, and how it evaluates on exit status. Next, how Linux handles permissions and ownership between hosts and in and out of archives. Finally, I was wrong in thinking there wasn’t a way to get a root shell… so of course I have to do that.