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[MacOS] Debug program as root user #3155

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hjmallon opened this issue Feb 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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[MacOS] Debug program as root user #3155

hjmallon opened this issue Feb 12, 2019 · 2 comments
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@hjmallon
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I have recently been using VSCode to debug a root daemon on macOS. This is due to a current bug in XCode that means I cannot use it. I am starting VSCode with sudo and everything works fine. However I think it would be useful if there was a switch to enable an OS password prompt on debug start to run a program as root (something like gksu on Linux and UAC on Windows as well as macOS?) without running the rest of VSCode as root.
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@hjmallon I will mark it as a feature request. We have a similar situation on Linux where we will elevate with psexec but I don't know the corresponding side on MacOS.

@pieandcakes pieandcakes changed the title Debug program as root user [MacOS] Debug program as root user Feb 13, 2019
@H-G-Hristov
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We also need the functionality available in Xcode to debug a daemon and run UnitTests as a root.

@H-G-Hristov H-G-Hristov mentioned this issue Jun 17, 2023
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@H-G-Hristov H-G-Hristov mentioned this issue Nov 15, 2023
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