On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 07:37:23 -0500 "Sl�vek Banko" 
<slavek.banko@...> wrote:
>On Saturday 07 of September 2013 08:20:12 Darrell Anderson wrote:
>> * tdesu: WARNING: unknown super user command
>
>Test the super user command is a one tdelibs/tdesu/su.cpp a second 
>time in 
>tdebase/tdesu/sudlg.spp. Valid is considered "sudo" or "su".
>
>For tdebase is in tdebase/tdesu/CMakeLists.txt defined:
>
>if( WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND )
>  set( DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND sudo CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE )
>else()
>  set( DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND su CACHE INTERNAL "" FORCE )
>endif()
>
>For tdelibs is in tdelibs/CMakeLists.txt defined:
>
># FIXME for unknown reason cmake cannot find su
>#find_program( __PATH_SU su )
>set( __PATH_SU "/bin/su" )
>
>if( __PATH_SU )
>  set( DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND ${__PATH_SU} )
>else( __PATH_SU )
>  message( STATUS "WARNING: su was not found" )
>endif( __PATH_SU )
>
># FIXME for unknown reason cmake cannot find sudo
># find_program( __PATH_SUDO "sudo" )
>set( __PATH_SUDO "/usr/bin/sudo" )
>if( WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND )
>  if( __PATH_SUDO )
>    set( DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND ${__PATH_SUDO} )
>  else( __PATH_SUDO )
>    message( FATAL_ERROR "sudo was chosen as tdesu backend, but 
>was not found 
>in path." )
>  endif( __PATH_SUDO )
>endif( WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND )
>
>In neither case does not test for the presence sudo. And in 
>tdelibs instead of 
>setting DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND to su or sudo is used full path 
>to binary, 
>which is incorrect.
>
>Proposed patches attached.

I build tdelibs and tdebase with WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND=OFF.

The description for that option: "Use sudo as backend for tdesu 
(default is su)".

I always presumed that option was for support for Ubuntu because 
that distro is hard-wired for sudo. sudo is well supported in 
Slackware, but the default is for users to use su. Hence my build 
option decisions.

Seems I can trigger the "tdesu: WARNING: unknown super user 
command" message simply by running tdesu. A snippet from my 
xsession-error log:

[tdeinit] Got EXT_EXEC 'tdesu' from launcher.
[tdeinit] tdesu is executable. Launching with exec.
[tdeinit] Got EXEC_NEW '/opt/trinity/bin/tdesud' from launcher.
[tdeinit] /opt/trinity/bin/tdesud is executable. Launching with 
exec.
tdesu: WARNING: unknown super user command
tdesu: WARNING: unknown super user command

Will the patches resolve the xsession-error messages with 
WITH_SUDO_TDESU_BACKEND=OFF?

Darrell