This was fun and CTFy. A couple of hints from where I got hung up:
Foothold: Are you being teased, or is that a hint?
User: If you can’t remember where it is, you’re not using everything at your disposal yet. Enumerate a bit more!
Root: Yo dawg, I heard you like shells. So we put a script in your script so you can shell while you shell.
When you going for root, just remember to be very quick in executing the command after you’ve made changes to the file as I took too long on this machine and it was all about timing.
Finally rooted! It was my first-ever machine I solved so I’m really happy! Thanks to @MiningOmerta who helped me when I was to dumb to use the right commands!
For the foothold, the solution really is right in front of you. Do OSINT, it’s as simple as googling one word.
To get to user, watch at what you should watch EVERY time you get on a machine!
I think root was the hardest part, as a tipp:
As Winnie-the-Poo got the news on the blackboard he forgot the protection so everyone could write their own news to the blackboard.
I hope I didn’t spoiler to much, If you need an extra nudge you can PM me 
Good Luck!
rooted. There are big nudges in comments 
you may ping if you are stuck.
FINALLY ROOTED!
I’m sure I know the way to root but the window only opens once in a long time (talking about the news here) - atm I’d have to wait 6 hours. Is there a way to speed this up or is there another way to root?
@0xRand0m said:
I’m sure I know the way to root but the window only opens once in a long time (talking about the news here) - atm I’d have to wait 6 hours. Is there a way to speed this up or is there another way to root?
I am not sure what way to root you are planning but the way I used is very much under your control.
The amount of spoilers here is too ■■■■ high 
I liked the box very much.
Amazing foothold, nice user1 to user2 migration thanks to GTFO and with the help of pspy it was way to easy to find the weak spot here.
I spent so much time on root part. If you didn’t use ssh login for we***min, you can not do privelege part. Or I am missing something, not sure.
Still don’t understand the hints on getting root with this box
after updating update-mol… file when i try to relogin through ssh it is asking for webadmin password any solution can’t get root password
Type your comment> @inth3WILD said:
Still don’t understand the hints on getting root with this box
Look for some processes.
Rooted. This was a fun box. Certainly learnt some useful stuff! Thank you for the box, @Xh4H . Feel free to DM me if you’re stuck
Rooted.
Happy to hint if anyone needs help.
found it
Finally after some days and with the huge help of the comments on this forum this morning I was able to get the root flag (my first box btw)
But I admit that I didn’t totally understand the process.
Well, I understand what I should do, but I really don’t understand the process of finding the 0*-*****r with pspy.
Could anyone explain this to me? In particular I have two questions.
1 - how do you install pspy on the machine? Or what did you use instead?
2 - how did you know that this is the right process to modify? I mean, I read I lot of people talking about the ID, but i didn’t understand that.
Just rooted this one. nice machine
Finally Solved!
The tips in this thread led me down a 4 day rabbit hole unnecessarily.
Some hints for those struggling as much as I did.
Initial Foothold: The “hacker” told you what to look for, google his name and try the different ones. Once you find the right one, a simple google search brings you back to find the cred.
User: There is a message for you to find, once you find it, don’t do what I did and spend a bunch of time learning that method. Simply do what you would normally do to change users, and find a 1 liner to solve the problem that arises. (extra hint: it wont work unless you change the lock so that your keys work)
Root: There is a file that ran when you used the right key. Tell it what to do and the next time you use your keys, it will give you what you want.
If this helped please give some respect!
Got root lol very gd puzzle had to be fast :>