Thursday, December 18, 2008

SSH Login times taking forever

this article saved me a lot of hastle.

I log into a lot of hosts by IP with SSH for embedded linux development, and for some reason it seems like my SSH login times had become unbelievably slow. It could take around 60 seconds to get a password prompt, which I find unbearable.

The article above details how to use ssh -v to watch what is going on during a login, and indicates that if you are getting GSSAPI errors, you should consider disabling it or fixing the root cause of such errors.

Disabling it sped my logins right back up.

Thanks again random internet person.

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