Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 16:01:34 +0400 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> To: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Slow passwd command Message-ID: <20000824160134.B9017@linux.rainbow> In-Reply-To: <NEBBJLAOAKHHJLPLDLPIKELPDBAA.jonathan@corpex.com>; from jonathan@corpex.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:39:00PM %2B0100 References: <NEBBJLAOAKHHJLPLDLPIKELPDBAA.jonathan@corpex.com>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:39:00PM +0100, Jonathan Defries wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem that has been with me for several months now. > > When I type "passwd <user>" is takes nearly a minute to be > presented with the password prompt. The same happens running > passwd as a normal user. Do you have NIS client enabled? nis_client_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf If you have NIS client enable and don't have NIS server somewhere then passwd etc. will work slow, very slow. Also check /etc/host.conf for NIS. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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