Debug program that needs root privileges

[Tomás Ó hÉilidhe]

I'm currently writing a program that opens a raw Ethernet socket. I use "sudo" to run it at the commandline.

How can I use the Code::Blocks IDE to debug it? I've tried replacing "gdb" with a script that runs gdb as root, but it didn't work out.

Is there anything I can do to my Linux machine to make it so that anybody can open a raw socket without the need for "sudo"?

[dje]

Hi !

Not at all a Linux expert, but did you try to execute C::B with sudo so that launched gdb inherit rights ?

Dje

[Jenna]

Did you try to run gdb and/or your program with suid bit set ?

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chmod u+s /usr/bin/gdb or

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chmod u+s <your_program>.

If you have to set it for your program the owner has to be root of course.