Re: Delay in authentication.

[Igmar Palsenberg]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Meadors wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> > This definitely seems like the classic "/etc/nsswitch.conf is told to
> > look for YP servers and you are not using YP", so have a look and fix
> > nsswitch.conf if this is in fact the problem.
> 
> What I have never gotten, is why on my machines (no specific distro, just
> everything built from source and installed by me) login takes a long time,
> unless I have portmap running.
> 
> My /etc/nsswitch.conf would seem to be right:
> 
> What else could effect that?

check /etc/pam.d/login

Could be kerberos that is biting you, althrough that doesn't explain the
portmap story.

	Igmar