hardest week yet: some guidence please

[raymond2688]

The find method returns the start of the substring in the string. So your start variable is set to the beginning of the word 'user', that is, to the 'u'. You want to add five to it so your slice skips over the word 'user' and the space after it.

I tried this which is what I think you mean

 start = line.find("invalid user"[5:])

But it only takes out inval
I can only go up to 9 then it changes everything from

Output:
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user root
id user roo

to this

Output:
er sshd[6488]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6490]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6490]: message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6492]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6488]: message repeated 5 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6492]: message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6494]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6496]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6494]: message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6501]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6496]: message repeated 5 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6503]: Failed password for invalid user root
er sshd[6501]: message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for invalid user root