Very slow password validation

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 02:28:19 UTC 2008


Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>>>> After rawhide update of 20080726, validation of root password is 
>>>> taking (subjectively) a very long time, about 20-25 seconds.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>>> .
>>>
>>> Yes, logging in an su - terminal took about half a minute.
>> I've noticed that on some of my F9 machines, from remote. The delay is 
>> between ssh server, and getting back the login prompt. From memory, 
>> machine tries a dns lookup of the machine name to see if it matches 
>> ip, which eventually times out, and continues.
>>
>> Is that where is occurs {ie which commmand, from where, to where, when 
>> is the delay ?
>>
>> DaveT.
>>
> 
> For me the delay occurs after issuing su - in a gnome terminal.  If I 
> use sudo, normal response.

Thats interesting, I had exactly the opposite happening during the F9 rawhide 
cycle, where I would have a very large delay to get sudo commands (or a sudo -s) 
to work, but using su would work immediately.

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