Another way to get around this is to run debugserver as root (“sudo debugserver 
…”)

On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Richard Mitton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks,
> 
> For what it's worth, I had 'sudo DevToolsSecurity -enable' enabled from the 
> ssh window, but it still would not work.
> 
> setuid on the debugserver binary seems to be working well for me, and looks 
> like the safest route for now.
> 
> Richard Mitton
> [email protected]
> 
> On 08/09/2013 12:51 PM, Greg Clayton wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Richard Mitton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Right, I'm just trying to understand how Apple's works without such things.
>> Because the debugserver binary is code signed by Apple in Xcode releases.
>>> Or actually, does it? I just tried sshing using the stock lldb/debugserver, 
>>> and that doesn't work either.
>> You still do have to authorize debugging. If you are logged into your 
>> machine, you will do this via a dialog box, otherwise you can do it via the 
>> command line:
>> 
>> sudo DevToolsSecurity -enable
>> 
>> I would avoid editing the “/etc/authorization” if you can avoid it as it 
>> will open security holes on your machine.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>>> Well I guess that answers that...  :)
>>> 
>>> Richard Mitton
>>> 
>>> [email protected]
>>> On 08/06/2013 03:29 PM, Benjamin Kemper wrote:
>>>> To permanently allow, edit "/etc/authorization" and change the value of 
>>>> the "system.privilege.taskport" key to "allow" (if I remember correctly). 
>>>> Be careful though, as this will allow any program on the system to use 
>>>> task_for_pid. I think you can further play with this to allow only a 
>>>> specific user or group but I haven't tried it yet.
>>>> 
>>>> To allow the use of task_for_pid only for the current SSH session use:
>>>> security authorize -l -c system.privilege.taskport
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Richard Mitton <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> So I'm trying to build debugserver for OS X. I followed all the steps in 
>>>> code_signing.txt and was able to get a debugserver binary.
>>>> 
>>>> When I run lldb using this binary, I get a dialog asking for 'Developer 
>>>> Tools Access' in order to run it. If I enter my password this works fine. 
>>>> (although I'm not sure if it sticks over a reboot)
>>>> 
>>>> -However- if I try and SSH into this machine and run it from there, it 
>>>> fails ("initial process state wasn't stopped"). I believe this is because 
>>>> the permissions dialog only applies to the current session, so the SSH 
>>>> shell doesn't inherit it (and can't open a GUI to ask me).
>>>> 
>>>> So, what is the process needed to permanently grant permissions for the 
>>>> debugserver binary? I can make it work by changing the owner of the file 
>>>> to root/wheel and setting the setuid bit, but I'm not sure if this is the 
>>>> right solution.
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Richard Mitton
>>>> [email protected]
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