groupadd, useradd, etc

[Mogens Kjaer]

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On a completely patched FC3 box, what could cause groupadd to take over 
> 3 minutes to finish?
> 
> All the utilities that manage users and groups are incredibly slow, 
> taking several minutes each to complete.
> 
> As the only loged in user (I'm still setting this box up) here's a sample:
> root at s2 ~# time groupadd xyz
> 
> real    3m16.414s
> user    0m27.906s
> sys     0m8.998s

Can you run

strace groupadd xyz

and get an idea what takes so long time?

Mogens

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