I have a friend at work who is trying to install debian. I have been helping. Doing my best to spread the knowledge around. Unfortunately I have hit a snag regarding NIS, possibly PAM, on Debian. For some reason on this particular machine user authentification always has a 5+ second delay. I believe this is PAM since it happens for everything. But only when NIS running. Here is an example. su bin -c id uid=2(bin) gid=2(bin) groups=2(bin) real 0m5.924s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s /etc/init.d/nis stop time su bin -c id uid=2(bin) gid=2(bin) groups=2(bin) real 0m0.008s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s grep -e passwd -e group /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: compat group: compat I can't figure it out. Something about having NIS running causes a big delay. If I turn NIS off then things are fast again. But, unfortunately, we need NIS running. I have an identical machine which I installed debian on and it does not have this delay. Everything is working fast on it and several other machines. It is only this one that my friend has installed himself, because he wants to learn more about debian, instead of one of my clones. And so jokingly it seems to be something my friend did which was different than what I did. But I am at wits end trying to figure this out. Are there any log files or increased debugging that I could kick in for PAM and NIS? Thanks Bob
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