On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:53 -0400, 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.
Any ideas or suggestions appreciated.
If you edit /etc/profile and put set -x as the first line, then when you log in on a text console each command bash executes will be printed before it is run. That way you'll be able to see exactly what happens and what takes so long