Run debug session as sudo

Environment data

dotnet --info output: .NET Command Line Tools (2.0.0)

Product Information: Version: 2.0.0 Commit SHA-1 hash: cdcd1928c9

Runtime Environment: OS Name: ubuntu OS Version: 16.04 OS Platform: Linux RID: ubuntu.16.04-x64 Base Path: /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.0.0/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

Version : 2.0.0 Build : e8b8861ac7faf042c87a5c2f9f2d04c98b69f28d

VS Code version: 1.17.2 b813d12980308015bcd2b3a2f6efa5c810c33ba5

C# Extension version: 1.12.1

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a console project.
2. Execute bash command in code that requires sudo permission

Expected behavior

command to be executed with root privilege.

Actual behavior

permission denied error

I have looked in launch settings documentation and also intellisense but I cannot see anywhere to set my debug launch options to use sudo. The work around is to launch VS Code as root but I have seen other languages vs code debuggers like python have ability to set it as a launch parameter for debugging session.

Is there any way to do this?

[chrisrickard]

FYI, it worked for me by throwing sudo in front of the debuggerPath, not ideal, bujt allowed me to debug.

E.g.

            "pipeTransport": {
                "pipeCwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
                "pipeProgram": "ssh",
                "pipeArgs": [ "vagrant@127.0.0.1", "-p2222", "-i ${workspaceRoot}/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key" ],
                "debuggerPath": "sudo ~/vsdbg/vsdbg",
                "quoteArgs": false
            },

[gregg-miskelly]

@GuerrillaCoder from what I can tell, gksudo will not redirect stdin/out across, so it might be possible for the extension to use it internally to add this feature, but it wouldn’t work as a pipeTransport. Thinking more, sudo wouldn’t work as there would be no way to pass in the password. I think the only thing that could work today would be to SSH into your own computer as root.

I will leave this open as a feature request. I think we could do this without too much effort by running sudo in the VS Code terminal.