Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14:
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the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in February.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...
The upstream bug tracker [0] has a lot more... And for some of them patches exist [1] but never got included. However, I would not mind to keep it. But I vote for moving lightdm to [extra] or [community] as well. [0] http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663 [1] http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?group_id=2663 -- main(a,b){char*/* Schoene Gruesse */c="B?IJj;M" "EHCX:;";for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}