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Hi all,

Slim upstream added
CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_PTRACE
to the slim.service file, apparently to silence lintian messages [1].
This breaks some admin commands [2] in a non obvious way and so causes
surprise to users.

To avoid surprises to our users (and possibly document this
behaviour in release notes) I think is better if this kind of hardening
is kept consistent across all login managers in Debian, so either slims
service drops the capability line or all other login managers (gdm
lightdm sddm..) adds it to their services.

I'd go with the former (patch slim service):
what do you think?

Lorenzo

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/slim-fork/code/60/#
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107505

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