If it's happening with SU when you're already logged in, then it's
probably not a DNS issue (unless you're doing some sort of network
authentication like NIS...)

Munir, see:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2002/03/09/0000.html

I had a similar problem on an SS-20.

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:49, nassarmu at redconcepts.net wrote:
> Josh Close writes:
> 
> > When I ssh into my pass and put in my password, it takes like 1-2 minutes to
> > verify it. I still does it when the box is restarted. There aren't any run
> > away processes either. It also takes as long when using "su". I have no clue
> > what's going on.
> 
> is this a sparc by any chance?
> 
> my sparcstations all have this problem, apparently sparcs suck at 
> generating/working with ssh keys.
> 
> really old x86s can have this problem as well (386s, 486s)
> 
> --
> Munir Nassar
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