| 1 | | The Nix corporation, stylized as '''*Nix''', is a software company best known for their Unix-like operating systems. Nix is a major provider of both personal and enterprise level systems, as well as server software. Every Nix operating system, bar those designed for servers or small devices, comes bundled with complementary card games, pinball, and pachinko pre-installed. |
| | 1 | = *NIX Corporation = |
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| | 3 | The Nix corporation, stylized as '''*Nix''', is a software company best known for their Unix-like operating systems. Nix is a major provider of both personal and enterprise level systems, as well as server software. Every *NIX operating system, bar those designed for servers or small devices, comes bundled with complementary card games, pinball, and pachinko pre-installed. |
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| | 5 | == Hacking a *NIX Computer (Tentative) == |
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| | 7 | A *NIX system is a Unix-like system, which means many Unix idioms, like {{{/etc/passwd}}} and {{{/etc/shadow}}}, are also available on *NIX OS. If you have physical access to the machine, it should be possible to perform the following actions (unless the drive is encrypted): |
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| | 9 | 1. Reboot the computer and boot onto a [wiki:bootdrive portable disk drive]. |
| | 10 | 2. From the alternate boot partition, log in to that partition's OS and mount the computer's drive somewhere on your file system. |
| | 11 | 3. Add a new user entry to the {{{/etc/passwd}}} file on that drive, and add a hashed password entry to {{{/etc/shadow}}}. |
| | 12 | 4. Grant the new user {{{sudo}}} permissions in the sudoers file ({{{/etc/sudoers}}}). |
| | 13 | 5. Add {{{/home/}}} folders, etc. |
| | 14 | 6. Restart the computer and boot normally. |
| | 15 | 7. Log in using the username/password combination you added to {{{/etc/passwd}}} and {{{/etc/shadow}}}. |
| | 16 | 8. Use {{{sudo}}} or {{{su}}} to access the machine with root permissions. |
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| | 18 | Presumably all or most of this is automated by the [wiki:bootdrive boot drive] that MT gives to the player, since the player is probably not all that tech-literate. |
