On Saturday 07 of September 2013 19:34:25 Darrell Anderson wrote:
> 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
>

It does not matter if you use su or sudo. In tdelibs CMakeLists.txt 
DEFAULT_SUPER_USER_COMMAND is not set to a short name "su" or "sudo", but the 
name with the full path - ie. "/bin/su". And this is then the reason for this 
warning.

Slavek
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