[plug] Slow login
    Mark O'Shea 
    mark at musicalstoat.co.uk
       
    Thu Aug 19 15:54:08 WST 2004
    
    
  
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:10, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:49 pm, simon at plumtek.com wrote:
> 
> > Im wondering what network operations would be performed on login?
> 
> A DNS lookup for the local hostname if it's not defined in /etc/hosts or an 
> LDAP/NIS lookup if network authentication is being used are the most likely 
> candidates.
> 
Or even connecting back to port 113 for auth info.  But the original
post didn't actually indicate if it was a network login or on the
console.  Which is it?
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Mark O'Shea
    
    
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