How do I run my application as superuser from Eclipse?

Question

I\'m running in to an error when I try to run my server application from Eclipse. The error is java.net.BindException: Permission denied. I think this is be

Answer 1

You may go this way

1. create a Makefile with javac calls
2. add the following line:

setcap 'cap_net_admin=+ep' Server

1. configure sudo to allow your Eclipse user to run setcap.

So you will have a transparent debugging (no sudo wrapper - gdb ok). Cons: it is a local security breach.

Solution:

put this to /opt/my-stupid-eclipse

#!/bin/sh

setcap 'cap_net_admin=+ep cap_net_raw=+ep' $1

chmod +x this script and whitelist it on sudo config.

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /opt/my-stupid-eclipse

Add it to your makefile, specify path to your Server binary.

Now you have pretty strange but secure script, that cannot be changed by other users... and still a little breach for replacing Server binary with any malicious code, that will gain caps, so no filename check/stricts will help.. can $1 be contaminated with bash commands, no? Guess, no.