Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:12:23 -0400 From: david mankins <dm@k12-nis-2.bbn.com> To: david mankins <dm@bbn.com> Cc: Soren Harward <soren@cinternet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *really* slow login times Message-ID: <199904142112.RAA06083@k12-nis-2.bbn.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:00:15 EDT." <199904142100.RAA05908@k12-nis-2.bbn.com>
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The following may no longer be true: Another possibility is that it isn't login that's slow, it's getty. On the console (and any physical terminals) it is getty that prints the first login prompt you see. It collects your name and then invokes ``login your-user-name'' to collect a password. If login isn't satisfied with your password, it loops. Is it the *first* password: prompt that is slow in coming, or, if you type a bogus password, are subsequent password: prompts slow? That's how they did it in the ``good old days''. I don't know if this is the way it works now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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