nsswitch.conf changes

Hugh Caley hcaley at rocketsoftware.com
Thu Aug 4 17:55:18 UTC 2011


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>> Hi,
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>> I changed all my nsswitch.conf entries to point to files, previously
>> it was set to "files nis". However when I ssh in it still takes a long
>> time to authenticate. Is there a service I need to restart e.g. pam
>> etc? .... I'll reboot as a last resort but I thought it was an
>> interesting problem.
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> grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts:      files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
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> (almost certainly bound to help)
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> Craig

Just to state the obvious, whenever I've had this problem, it was almost 
always because I misspelled the first entry in my list of DNS servers in 
resolv.conf ;)

Hugh

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*/Hugh Caley/
Linux System Administrator
Aldon Business Area
Rocket Software*

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