Re: [SLE] Login delay

From: Dan Jones (lists_at_riddlemaster.org)
Date: 09/03/04

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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:35:05 -0400

    On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 04:14, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
    > On Wed, Sep 01, Dan Jones wrote:
    >
    > > I'm running SuSE 9.1 Logging in is very slow. I'm not talking about X
    > > loading. Logging in prompts for a password. If I give an incorrect
    > > password, it takes about 2 or 3 seconds to tell me that. If I give a
    > > correct password, it takes literally 45 seconds to a minute to give me a
    > > command prompt. It doesn't matter where or how I'm logging in. Running
    > > 'su' from a shell gives the same delay. Running a program such as YaST,
    > > which requires the root password, gives the same delay. The delay
    > > occurs with either a normal user or root. It occurs with any shell
    > > (bash, zsh, csh, etc). I thought perhaps the issue might be with shadow
    > > passwords and so disabled them. No change. Any time I have to enter a
    > > password, there's a delay of close to a minute.
    >
    > This normally means you have problems with DNS lookup or other,
    > similar network problems. On function tries to connect to a network
    > service and waits for the timeout.

    You were headed in the right direction. Turns out that I had somehow
    enabled LDAP. Turning it off fixed the problem. 

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