Our remote debug agent, pdebug, runs on a target system and communicates with the gdb debugger on the host.
The pdebug agent can run as a dedicated server on a port, be spawned from inetd with incoming connections, or be spawned by qconn.
The pdebug agent is generally run as root, so anyone can upload, download, or execute any arbitrary code at root's privilege level. This agent was designed to be run on development systems, not production machines. There's no means of authentication or security, and none is planned for the future. See the section on qconn below.