IntelliJ - Running Program as Sudo

Question

Developing a program on OSX using Java and IntelliJ. Deals with network sockets and ICMP. Hence, the program needs to be run as root or sudo'd on OSX. Program runs fine from a terminal window outside IntelliJ under sudo. However, I would like to debug and run it from IntelliJ (V9). In IntelliJ it errors (I need root privs to enumerate network devices). I know how to pass program and VM parameters in IntelliJ but now how to hit Run and/Debug and have it run under sudo? What is needed is basically sudo java ...... MyProgram instead of java ..... MyProgram Any ideas or workarounds.

Answer 1

I came out with an answer and wanted to share it just in case anyone else runs into this. To solve the problem, I took my cue from what I do with QT & QT Creator when doing network programming.

On OSX, I opened up a terminal window and cd'd down to/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3.app/Contents/MacOS. There you will find a file called idea which launches the IDE. I ran that as sudo (sudo ./idea). That took care of permissions on anything Intellij launched and I could debug and step through my code as needed.

sudo /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3.app/Contents/MacOS/idea  

Since this is a dev machine and I am in control of it security is not an issue in this case.

Hope it helps someone else out.

Answer 2

Inside a terminal:

sudo -s 

give access to the root user.

from there you could run the Idea IDE using the script:

/Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA*/bin/idea.sh 

and in this way I'm able to work on network where permission errors where printed before.