Mission 23 HELP totally stuck

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Stuck on mission 23. Connecting to host for the first time. I don't have access to a power supply strong enough to get passcrack (or it's a bug) and I've tried to connect with no password, pass, password, username, user, root, toor. I've tried everything I can think of. They're level 1 hosts so they shouldn't even have a password set yet. I've tried everything. I have no idea what to do now. I've gotten netinfo, no help. When I try connect with no password it just starts spamming the working directory and just keeps echoing home over and over and over making it impossible to type. Help!!!