[Qt-creator] Debugging as super-user

[Bryce Schober]

Thanks for educating the Linux newbie!  So here's what I got to work well
for me.

I added this line to my /etc/sudoers, using visudo:

<user> <machine>= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/gdb

Then I created this bash script wrapper as /usr/bin/gdb-su:

#!/bin/bash
sudo gdb $@

Finally, I set qt-creator to use gdb-su as its gdb, and presto, happiness!

-- 
Bryce Schober

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Coda Highland <coda at bobandgeorge.com>wrote:

> And for that matter you could use that technique to restrict it to
> your own user, too, so services couldn't get free root via gdb.
>
> /s/ Adam
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Coda Highland <coda at bobandgeorge.com>
> wrote:
> > You could always modify /etc/sudoers to allow gdb to be run without a
> password.
> >
> > /s/ Adam
> >
>
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