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Subject: Re: *really* slow login times 
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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.


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