On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:24:00 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:

> If you want another reason not to use slim, how about, it doesn't seem
> to work if your authentication is coming from Samba AD. I have just set
> up a new PC, compiled the latest Samba (4.4.4), set it up as a domain
> member, checked that getent showed my username and then logged out of
> the GUI. Tried to login with my username, entered password when
> prompted, it went back to 'username' and wouldn't let me login as root
> again.
[...]
> In my opinion (for what it is worth) slim is not fit for purpose.

Thanks for your report! I already suspected there's much
more broken in the slim code than just a few things; and
that it has never been ready for prime time, actually.

Regards
Urban