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Re:How to move a running process into a tmux session (2020) by tyingq on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:51PM (#33090060)
Either, as root:

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

or permanently by editing the file /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf

Re:How to move a running process into a tmux session (2020) by metadat on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @09:56PM (#33090096)
What are the costs and / or downsides to enabling prace_scope?
Re:How to move a running process into a tmux session (2020) by ollien on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:45PM (#33090468)
https://askubuntu.com/a/153970

> What are the risks in setting ptrace_scope to 0?

> - This restores the old behavior where one process can "trace" another process, even if there is no parent-child relationship.

> - In theory, a piece of malware can use this to harm you/your computer; e.g. it can attach to Firefox and log all of your URLs/passwords, etc. In practice this is extremely unlikely unless you blindly install binary debs from random sites, etc.

> - As far as debugging goes, the 0 settings is in fact required for gdb, strace, etc. to attach to non-children unless you run them with elevated privileges (sudo).