FWIW, I've joined a Devuan machine to a Windows AD domain with samba/winbind and have no problems logging in with a domain user from slim when properly setup. I'll admit it's not as nice as lightdm in that it doesn't show a list of previous login names, but it is basically functional as a GUI login screen.

I'll try installing lightdm to see how that goes on Devuan compared to Ubuntu.

Does anyone recommend other display managers on Devuan?

-- Tom

> On 19 Jun 2017, at 21:09, Rowland Penny <rpenny241155@???> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:34:49 +1000
> Tom <wirelessduck@???> wrote:
>
>> Both slim and rsyslog are uninstallable on ascii. Thankfully I have
>> rsyslog still installed from jessie, but I accidentally uninstalled
>> slim and now can't re-install it. Wha'ts involved in updating package
>> dependencies to get these (and other packages) installable on ascii?
>> Does it require extensive packaging knowledge, or could this be
>> handled by someone without any prior packaging/development experience?
>>
>> http://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=72
>>
>> -- Tom
>
> I actually think it is a bonus that slim is not installable on ascii,
> Unless things have changed, it is a dead project, it is also about as
> much use as chocolate fire guard if you need to connect to a Samba AD
> domain. One of the first things I do after installing Devuan is
> replace slim with lightdm. You are quite at liberty to use slim if you
> like, but I will never use it ;-)
>
> Rowland
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