Kevin Bartz wrote:
the "password" prompt takes about 10 seconds to appear after I enter my login. After I enter my password, everything's fine and works at a comparable speed. Even the login prompt appears quickly after I ssh in. It's just the password prompt that's now taking forever to appear.
I just started to have this problem as well as right after I installed the latest patches on my SLES 8 system using YOU. I have a slight twist to the problem: My system has 2 Opteron 244 CPUs on a MSI K8D Master board with two 100/1000 ethernet ports. I am using both ports right now; one is connected to a 100 Mb/s network switch, and the other is connected to a 1000 Mb/s network switch, each on a separate network, and the server is not configured as a router. In my case, the ssh login delay is on the port configured for 1000 Mb/s (Gig), and the delay varies from 10 seconds to a couple of minutes, and I haven't been able to correlate them to any other events on the ssytem. The ssh logins to the 100 Mb/s port is normal, as are other types of connections like rsh, rlogin, rcp, or ftp to both ports. Also, the data rates I get out of the Gig link is what I expect, so it's not a network problem. It's just the initial ssh connection that has a delay. If I use the verbose mode for ssh to connect from another host, I see where it gets stuck: debug: SshAppCommon/sshappcommon.c:138/ssh_app_get_global_regex_context: Allocating global SshRegex context. debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:2764/ssh2_parse_config_ext: Version not found on first line, assuming configuration to be old style. debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:622/ssh_config_set_param_verbose: Setting variable 'VerboseMode' to 'FALSE'. debug: SshConfig/sshconfig.c:2704/ssh2_parse_config_ext: Unable to open /home/chu/.ssh2/ssh2_config debug: Connecting to cumae-ge, port 22... (SOCKS not used) debug: Ssh2/ssh2.c:2297/main: Entering event loop. debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:1421/ssh_client_wrap: Creating transport protocol. debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:85/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "publickey" to usable methods. debug: SshAuthMethodClient/sshauthmethodc.c:85/ssh_client_authentication_initialize: Added "password" to usable methods. debug: Ssh2Client/sshclient.c:1462/ssh_client_wrap: Creating userauth protocol. debug: client supports 2 auth methods: 'publickey,password' debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:530/ssh_common_wrap: local ip = 198.168.33.80, local port = 48747 debug: Ssh2Common/sshcommon.c:532/ssh_common_wrap: remote ip = 198.168.33.81, remote port = 22 debug: SshConnection/sshconn.c:1945/ssh_conn_wrap: Wrapping... debug: SshReadLine/sshreadline.c:2414/ssh_readline_eloop_initialize: Initializing ReadLine... ...delay occurs here... then it goes on. I would really appreciate any insight to this problem. thanks, eyc