Hi,

I am a linux novice. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 purchased from CanaKit. The program I have created requires Sudo to run since it attempts to change the scheduler for a threat that it spawns. When I tried to debug it using DDD I get a privilege violation since it seems GDB does not start the program as Sudo. After searching the web for hours, I have not found anything that explains how to get DDD to do this.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Joe

You could set SUID as one possible solution.

Registers today and posts this kind of question? I suspect a TROLL.
A newbie would not be able to write that kind of question/background.

Welcome to LQ Senitar,

Not an everyday suggestion, but it is possible to run the debugger logged in as root to debug the program.

Another suggestion is to run the debugger to debug only the portions of the program which do not require root privileges, for instance using #if 0 to remove those portions while you debug other issues. That is if problems exist outside of the root required sections.

@computersavvy, or others so inclined,

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Yes, 'sudo -i' can be used to log in as root even when the root account is not enabled.

sudo -i solved my problem. Since I'm on my own RaspberryPi running as root is no issue. Although I've been a developer on windows for over 30 years, I have only been using Linux for a few days now. I guess it time to find some on-line course on linux basics.

Thanks for your help