Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:18:16 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <B1EDB059-8A32-49A0-AF56-2AD286CE00AE@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01c614ef$c85ec0b0$0900a8c0@satellite> References: <4053413D-A3D3-4553-A1C9-49E92CD1D1F9@u.washington.edu> <8C520B67-731D-4064-967F-BDD017FE3C28@disflux.com> <94556B3B-CA17-40D0-BC5B-1D35CA87CBE7@u.washington.edu> <000d01c614ef$c85ec0b0$0900a8c0@satellite>
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On Jan 8, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Dave wrote: > Hi, > I caught this midthread, but two things. Are you running sshd in > a jail? And do you have dns resolving? I recently had an ssh slow > authentication issue, which when found was dns not resolving. Try > setting UseDns to no in sshd_config see if that helps. > HTH > Dave. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Cooper" > <youshi10@u.washington.edu> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:42 AM > Subject: Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0 > > >> >> On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Derek Musselmann wrote: >> >>> On Jan 8, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>>> I'm having a hard time authenticating after upgrading the >>>> kernel and some packages, and I was wondering if someone could >>>> help me out with this issue. I marked the trouble points and >>>> included my sshd_config. >>> >>> I noticed in your sshd_config that you have: >>> >>> # Change to yes to enable built-in password authentication. >>> PasswordAuthentication yes >>> PermitEmptyPasswords no >>> >>> # Change to no to disable PAM authentication >>> ChallengeResponseAuthentication no >>> >>> >>> By default, ssh uses PAM for authentication. By commenting >>> those lines out, it doesn't mean that password checking won't be >>> done, just that it will be handled with PAM. >>> >>> And then later in the file you have: >>> UsePAM yes >>> >>> Try commenting out the PasswordAuthentication, >>> PermitEmptyPasswords, and ChallengeResponse lines. >>> >>> ----- >>> Derek Musselmann >>> http://www.disflux.com >> >> Tried exactly that, and it doesn't seem to have change the >> performance, actually =\... It still hangs in the same location, >> strangely enough. >> -Garrett I should be more specific. Setting UseDNS to no did the trick. Maybe sshd was confused by my hostname setup in /etc/hosts, but I'm not going to speculate there. All that I know is that it works like it used to =). -Garrett
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