begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:47:48PM -0700: > I'm dealing with an old Red Hat 7.3 machine that's been using NIS for > authentication. The NIS server is going to be retired... there's a > Windows AD server that we use now via LDAP. I know... :-) This mostly > works pretty well. On this one machine, though, after inputting my > username I wait about a minute for the password prompt to appear, and > then another good minute or two for a command prompt.
I see this with ssh logins and reverse-dns issues. Dropping the most frequently connecting hosts into /etc/hosts speeds up logins tremendously. So I'd start there. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
