[Qt-creator] Debugging as super-user

[Bryce Schober]

So does anyone have any other bright ideas for debugging as super-user?
Please? If there are any pointers in the right direction, I'm not afraid of
poking around in the source myself.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Bryce Schober <bryce.schober at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually, that doesn't work either. Qt Creator launches my application
> under the gdb-su, but it can't communicate for some reason. When I try to
> pause the app, it fails to pause, and the debugger window shows:
>
> State changed from InferiorRunning(10) to InferiorStopping(11).
> sStop requested...
> dTRYING TO INTERRUPT INFERIOR
> dCANNOT INTERRUPT 32147
>
> My reference is that if I launch qt creator as root, all the debugging runs
> smoothly.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bryce Schober <bryce.schober at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Bryce Schober
>



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Bryce Schober
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