elevate gdb privileges

[Valery Reznic]

Hi, Ido


suid root != everyone can use it

mkdir -m700 ~/for_setuid
Then copy gdb here and make it setuid root

Valery






>________________________________
> From: ik <idokan at gmail.com>
>To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il> 
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:33 PM
>Subject: elevate gdb privileges
> 
>Hello,
>
>I have a program that I write that uses user-space libraries that talk
>with kernel space, and I use an IDE for the development and debugging.
>
>The program requires to run as super user, but I do not want to run
>the whole IDE itself as super user, only gdb for this specific
>project, but the IDE
>does not allow me to do something like: /usr/bin/kdesu /usr/bin/gdb ...
>I also do not wish to provide suid to root, and allow every one to use
>gdb as root.
>
>Beside executing gdb myself with sudo, how would you recommend me to
>elevate user privileges for gdb on such case ?
>
>Thanks,
>Ido
>
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