cmdbox

$ cat BRIEFING

There is a Linux box on the other side of that button. The last person to use it was careful. They stripped the machine down, hid the important stuff, and left without telling anyone the way back in.

You get a shell on it. That is it. Everything you need to open the box is somewhere on the box, and every command you need is available.

$ cat RULES

You don't have to install anything.

It runs in this browser. It even works on a phone.

Type help first.

It lists every command the box still has, and there is nothing else on it.

You cannot break it permanently.

rm really does delete stuff, with no recycle bin and no undo. reset-box puts everything back if you want to start over.

It is yours alone.

Everyone gets their own copy of the machine, so nothing you do to it affects anybody else.

When it opens, you get a QR code.

Show it to me in person. Then you will get your reward

$ cat SMALL-PRINT

The code works only once, so do not hand it round: whoever scans it first is the one who gets the reward.

The box prints a link when you log in. Use that link to return to the same session within two hours.

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