pam_krb5 against w2k3 very slow?

Matthew N. Andrews matt at slackers.net
Mon Dec 20 15:32:16 EST 2004


Tobias Schenk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we connected a linux box with w2k3 and installed pam_krb5 for sshd. In
> principle it works but it takes about 10sec to authenticate?! The
> servers work in a test environment means basically no load. 
> The krb5 installation is heimdal 0.61 but I dont know if this really
> has do with the pam_krb5.so library. 
> Is this behavior common or can it be sped up?
> 
> Thanks for any comments,
> 
> Tobias
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Where did the pam_krb5 module come from. does it allow a debug parameter in
the pam config? have you tried turning this on, and logging debug messages
with syslog to see what step it's waiting on?

-Matthew Andrews


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