[Interest] Debugging as root.

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:26:07AM +0100, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> Den 14-02-2013 03:54, Thiago Macieira skrev:
> > 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).
> 
> setuid gdb? "sudo gdb" as the debugger?
> 
> If you do try setuid gdb, remember to remove this again as soon as you
> are done debugging.
> 
> Haven't tried any of them. If you solve the puzzle, please let us know
> the way you did it. You are not the only one who have hit this
> problem.  When I did on Windows, I ran QtC as administrator.

If that's a feature you use regularly and/or of general
interest you could consider filing a feature request on 
bugreports.qt-project.org.

Andre'