On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote:
Hello everybody,
slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in February.
I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter. This is a very active project with responsive upstream developer. Security is a key feature and it integrates with latest desktop techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has 259 votes at the time of writing.
Any thoughts on that?
https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many issues with it... Allan