= *NIX Corporation =

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.

== Mecha ==

'''Mecha''' is an open-source mobile operating system developed and maintained by the *NIX Corporation. Based on a heavily-modified *NIX kernel, the Mecha Open-Source Project (MOSP) has enabled countless third-party developers to create customized mobile operating systems for use on everything from [wiki:phone mobile phones] to wearables, like smartwatches and [wiki:hud smart glasses]. The latest release of the Mecha OS is Version 7.3.1 Key Lime Pie.

== Hacking a *NIX Computer (Tentative) ==

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):

1. Reboot the computer and boot onto a [wiki:bootdrive portable disk drive].
2. From the alternate boot partition, log in to that partition's OS and mount the computer's drive somewhere on your file system.
3. Add a new user entry to the {{{/etc/passwd}}} file on that drive, and add a hashed password entry to {{{/etc/shadow}}}.
4. Grant the new user {{{sudo}}} permissions in the sudoers file ({{{/etc/sudoers}}}).
5. Add {{{/home/}}} folders, etc.
6. Restart the computer and boot normally.
7. Log in using the username/password combination you added to {{{/etc/passwd}}} and {{{/etc/shadow}}}.
8. Use {{{sudo}}} or {{{su}}} to access the machine with root permissions.

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.