[Interest] Debugging as root.

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2013 19.22.07, Jason Cipriani wrote:
> I'm developing an application in Qt Creator that needs to be run as root.
> I'd rather not run Qt Creator itself as root. Can I configure Qt Creator to
> run the application as root when I press the run button?

You may be able to tell Creator that your debugger isn't "gdb", but a wrapper 
program that is setuid root and execs gdb.

Or to use Creator's remote debugging ability to connect to a running gdbserver 
that you started as root. This is probably the most likely to succeed (Debug > 
Start Debugging > Attach to Remote Debug Server).

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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