Re: HPUX 11i problem on user authentication - takes long time

From: Doug O'Leary (dkoleary_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/22/03 

Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:57:47 GMT

In article <3f6e831f.0312171050.28881c44@posting.google.com>, antonio wrote:
> when I telnet to a hpux (11i) box I enter login and password and the
> prompt comes right after. When I enter a "mortal" (non-UID 0) user
> after the login name I enter password and takes long time for me to
> get the prompt. Eventually comes, however it takes long time. I did
> check /etc/shells, and nsswitch.conf . But I couldn't get the reason
> on why.

Some good suggestions in the posts. One other thing to check that
recently bit me is verify permissions on /etc/nsswitch.conf and
/etc/resolv.conf are set to 444. Your problem description sounds
like it could be a name resolution problem (in addition to automounted
home directories, etc). Assuming it is, if root can resolve the
addresses and the other normal users can't, then it might be that normal
users can't read /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/nsswitch.conf.

HTH;

Doug 

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