Long wait until SSH drops you to cygwin prompt...

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 10/23/2013 4:13 PM, Troy Cleland wrote:
> We are having issues with users that are connecting to our cygwin ssh
> server taking a long time to drop them to the prompt after login.
>
> Example
>
> I use putty from my windows environment and connect it prompts for
> username and pw and then shows the message of last login and then sits
> for about 2 mins or longer to actually drop me to the prompt in
> cygwin.
>
>
> Its like the hand off from the authentication to cygwin prompt is
> getting caught somewhere in the process. This happens with people
> using mac or windows, doesnt seem to matter.

Does it make a difference if you use Cygwin's ssh-client from Windows?
If not, as a debugging aid you could add debugging flags to both 'ssh'
and 'sshd' (don't do this for 'sshd' from a command line unless you've
started the command line as 'cyg-server').


-- 
Larry

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