Hacking Identifying as Super User

[JoostinOnline]

I have done plenty of searching, but I can't find any detailed info on what it does. The best I could find was a mention of it in an article about the 003 brick
http://giantpune.zzl.org/003brick.html

Naturally the first thing somebody does when they get a console is to pop in a game and play it. I was sent a few dumps from various formerly-Korean Wiis. And the uid.sys tells a different story there. Directly after all the titles installed at the factory comes one 00000001-00000000. This is the TID used for "Super User" by some homebrew programs ( AnyTitleDeleter, AnyRegionChanger, ... ). This means that at one time, somebody opened up a brand-spankin-new console and didn't even think about playing a game.

 

[Midna]

Super user means root. That article or whatever is just talking about a Wii on which the first thing done was homebrew, rather than a game.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Super user means root. That article or whatever is just talking about a Wii on which the first thing done was homebrew, rather than a game.

But what I mean is do you get special permissions or something?

 

[giantpune]

http://hackmii.com/2008/04/thanks-waninkoko/

 

[JoostinOnline]

Thanks giantpune.

 

[SifJar]

From my understanding, it is not really "super user" (Wii doesn't run a Unix OS after all, doesn't have "users" in this sense as I understand it), it was just called that to make it easier to explain.