site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 2005/06/25 v 15:45, Chase: i have an if statement that looks like: if (geteuid()==0) { // routing table adjustments that only root can make } -rwsr-xr-x root wheel thanks. -- Adam Nohejl Loki Software mailto:adam@lokisw.com http://lokisw.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... after each compile, i use chown/chmod to set the binary's privs like so: when i run the code normally, everything works just fine, whether launching as root or as a vanilla user. but, when i'm trying to step through the code with the xcode/gdb debugger, geteuid() is returning the uid of my vanilla user (the one i'm running xcode as). what can i do to fix this so that i can properly debug without having to log in as root to run xcode? You have to run gdb as root to debug processess running as root. (If you think about it, it makes sense.) I don't know whether there's any way for Xcode to run gdb as root but you can do it yourself (using sudo) if you don't depend on Xcode's GUI. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com