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

Adam Dinwoodie adam@dinwoodie.org
Wed Oct 23 23:27:00 GMT 2013


On 23 October 2013 21:13, 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.

It'd be helpful to break down the login process and see what's taking the time;
you could try, for example, explicitly running `/bin/dash` on login to see if
that speeds things up, which would point to the problem being something
bash-specific.

As a specific hint, you may want to try disabling/removing the bash-completion
package, if you have that installed.  I've noted previously that this slows
down Bash's start-up time significantly:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-03/msg00383.html

Adam

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