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Date:  Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:20:41 +0000
From:  Dogsbody <dan (at mark) dogsbody.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:11314] Re: very slow authentication
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <474F3B39.9010906 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
In-Reply-To:  <474F1E88.6020308 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
References:  <474F1E88.6020308 (at mark) nomealaska.org>
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> My new MSI bluequartz server is pretty slow when using ssh or winscp. I 
> fire up putty and user login pops up pretty quick, but when I enter the 
> password it takes up to something like 24 seconds or more. This is 
> enough to cause winscp to time-out before it connects.
> 
> I'm looking through the archive but not sure what the answer is - I've 
> seen reference to a db management vs. flat file - but not sure yet if 
> this applies. 

Not to this problem no.

> What else might I look at? Pretty stock otherwise.

The first things to check is that the server can do a reverse lookup of the IP 
you are connecting from.  It could be this is timing out.

Dan