How to solve “ptrace operation not permitted” when trying to attach GDB to a process?

Question

I\'m trying to attach a program with gdb but it returns:

Attaching to process 29139
Could not attach to process. If your uid matches the ui

Answer 1

I would like to add that I needed --security-opt apparmor=unconfined along with the options that @wisbucky mentioned. This was on Ubuntu 18.04 (both Docker client and host). Therefore, the full invocation for enabling gdb debugging within a container is:

docker run --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --security-opt apparmor=unconfined