Re: rlogin delays
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:47:59PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 20010829192906.A11406@raggedclown.net>,
> Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:44:06PM +0000, Iain Smith wrote:
> >> DNS lookups?
> >>
> >Pam is the whinger...
>
> No it probably isn't
>
> >Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM unable to
> >dlopen(/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so)
> >Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM [dlerror:
> >/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so: cannot open shared
> >object file: No such file or directory]
> >Aug 29 19:15:57 angel rlogind[392]: PAM adding faulty module:
> >/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
> >Aug 29 19:17:12 angel pam_rhosts_auth[392]: denied to
> >cliff@willow.raggedclown.intra as cliff: access not allowed
>
> See the delay between 19:15:57 and 19:17:12 ? That's probably spent
> in the pam_rhosts_auth module looking up a hostname.
>
> Most likely still a DNS issue.
>
> Similar questions pops up several times a week in the various Linux
> newsgroups and mailinglists and it's *always* a DNS issue.
>
> Mike.
I think the error messages concerning PAM indicate a PAM problem.
My DNS works just fine...
Cliff
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