[H-GEN] ssh login

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:

> On 2003-09-25, Sandra Milne wrote:
>
>> I've had an 'issue' with my debian b0x since I did a complete reinstall 
>> about a month ago. When I connect using ssh, the prompt for a login name 
>> appears immediately,

I'm guessing, but some SSH clients (which one are you using?) collect
the username when the program starts up.  PuTTY does this, for
example.

>> but it can be anywhere from 15 up to 30 seconds before the prompt
>> for a password appears.

In any event, this is probably the SSH client trying various methods
to authenticate you to the remote host, eventually failing, and trying
asking you for a password as a last resort.

Try using one or two -v options to your client to increase the
verbosity of what it's doing to find out; you'll probably find it's
trying to use RSA authentication first.

> Most weird slow stuff in ssh logins stems from incorrect setup
> of DNS, as ssh likes to look things up.  Have you checked this?

I'd expect DNS misconfiguration to create delays longer than 15 or 30
seconds; more like 90.

jason
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