[MacOS] Debug program as root user

[hjmallon]

Type: Debugger

I have recently been using VSCode to debug a root daemon on macOS. This is due to a current bug in XCode that means I cannot use it. I am starting VSCode with sudo and everything works fine. However I think it would be useful if there was a switch to enable an OS password prompt on debug start to run a program as root (something like gksu on Linux and UAC on Windows as well as macOS?) without running the rest of VSCode as root.

[pieandcakes]

@hjmallon I will mark it as a feature request. We have a similar situation on Linux where we will elevate with psexec but I don't know the corresponding side on MacOS.

[H-G-Hristov]

We also need the functionality available in Xcode to debug a daemon and run UnitTests as a root.