Re: su login

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:45:20 -0400

"Kelli" <Kelli@largecorp.com> wrote in message
news:42E0930E.2CD682A0@largecorp.com...
>I have several Redhat 9 boxes. I don't know what I've done. On some
> boxes, doing a 'su -' executes immediately, where as most of the other
> boxes wait, and wait for half a minute after entering the root password.
>
> Does anybody know what could cause Linux to wait so long after entering
> the root password? Like it's looking for LDAP of something?

NFS problems, as it tries to check the location and permissions of your home
directories and goes from / to /home to /home/username. If you've got a
dead NFS mount at, say /nfs, it will have difficulty and keep waiting for
NFS timeouts. I've seen this for years, particular with hard-mounts at the /
directory instead of being properly down a directory or two.

Alternatively, someone has rooted your boxes and the load on them is now
ridiculous with their DDOS attacks on someone else, or some other weird
issue I can't think of off the bat.

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