SSH login hangs after username is entered

[Eric Bakken]

Hello all,

More than 50% of the time when I try to login to our 9000 I enter my username and nothing happens. I then have to cancel my connection and try again. after a couple tries it usually allows me to enter my password.

I believe we only get this problem when connecting from our desktop machines. I havn't been able to recreate this problem on my laptop (via vpn) or another server. Any Ideas? Thanks in advance.

-Eric

[Denver Osborn]

Is there anything logged by sshd in the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log when you have the login problem?

-denver

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Try ssh -vvv user@hostname

Then post back what the diagnostics say the hang is on.

SEP

[Franky_1]

Hi Eric,

you can try to enter ssh with the -v (or -vv / -vvv to get even more detailed information) option to obtain more specific information which will give you some hints for the problem solution

Regards

Franky

[OldSchool]

ssh also makes use of reverse lookups. check forward and reverse lookup of the client fromt the server side.

if you find issues there, check /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf

[OldSchool]

disregard my previous...i missed the "after username" part

[Eric Bakken]

I've tried the above suggestions and the only thing in syslog that makes any sense is this:

Jan 15 09:29:07 chip syslog: 1-09:29/#J11607/11720/NETWORK PROCESS IS NOT ACTIVE


I thought that maybe this started when we all installed new versions of reflections so I uninstalled it from my computer and have been using putty but the problem is still there.

[Eric Bakken]

Update:

It has stopped timing out and now just takes about 30 to 40 seconds to bring up the password prompt.

[Jennifer Lynn]

Hi
We've had this problem before
not sure if ours was the same as yours
but for us it happened with autofs and the home directories

It was a nfs mounted home directory
and restarting autofs helped

[skt_skt]

is that taking 30-40 seconds when tried from laptop too? what about connecting from telnet?

if telnet connection is faster you may have to tune the sshd_config

you may try commenting /etc/opt/ssh/ssh_prng_cmds as below. Those last commands are executed when ever ssh login is tried.

as below

#"last" /usr/bin/last 0.01
> #"last log" /usr/bin/last 0.01