[wellylug] What can cause a slow login?

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Enkidu wrote:
>> That reminds me - I once had an issue on a Redhat 9 server where PAM was
>> causing SSH logins to take several seconds to complete. This wasn't too
>> bad for interactive shell sessions, but it completely killed CVS-over-ssh
>> performance (using key-pairs).
>>
> How d'you diagnose PAM problems?

That time? Through hours of painful trial and error... eventually found a 
RH advisory about the issue, *after* I'd figured out it was PAM-related. 
As for the 'right' method to diagnose PAM problems - don't know sorry.

-- 
David.