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Re: Logins with pam_ldap take 10sec

by Nick Sonneveld :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Jochen,

Try turning off the service NSCD.  I've had troubles with it at work
here where ldap lookups took ages.  Fortunately, there's a direct link
from the machine to the ldap server so I probably didn't need it anyway.

- Nick

Jung, Jochen wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I finaly got the authentication with pam_ldap against our ActiveDirectory server to work.
> But now I'm facing the problem, that the logins take quite long.
>
> After the prompt for the username, it takes about 10sec, till the password prompt is displayed.
> Has anyone an idea what the reason for this could be? The machines are connected over a LAN, so there should be no speed problems.
>
> I figured out, that the 10sec are about the same, a DNS request takes, if the record could not be found.
> Thats why I tried to replace the hostnames inside the /etc/ldap.conf with the corresponding IP numbers. But it didn't help.
>
> Anyone an idea, what went wrong?
>
> Regards, Jochen.

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