Re: Debugging a privileged process
Re: Debugging a privileged process
- Subject: Re: Debugging a privileged process
- From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:03:42 -0800
While there are workarounds, a bug report requesting the ability to run
an executable as a different user (or via sudo) from the UI would be a
good idea (please provide an example of what you are trying to do and
why you need to do it).
Scott
On Jan 26, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Kaelin Colclasure wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I've just finished porting a daemon program that uses raw sockets to
>>> Mac OS X, and now I'd like to be able to use Xcode's snazzy GDB
>>> integration to debug it, Shark to profile it, etc. Since it uses raw
>>> sockets, it must or course run as a privileged process. Is it
>>> possible to accomplish this from the Xcode IDE? Do I need to run all
>>> of Xcode under sudo? (And if so are there any caveats to doing so?
>>> ISTR some admonishments against using the AppKit classes in a
>>> privileged process.)
>>
>> Yes, you need to run Xcode under sudo. Dunno about caveats, though.
>
> I gave it a quick shot and I can indeed execute my process under the
> debugger and with the necessary privileges. But this does raise a few
> obvious questions like, "Where to Xcode's preferences get written?"
> Since the root user has no home directory, do these get sprayed into
> the root of the filesystem somewhere? (Nominally this a more of a
> generic Cocoa question, I suppose.)
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