User account takes 45 seconds to logon

[gman789]

One of my user accounts on a Solaris 8 server takes 45 seconds to logon. All the other user accounts logon immediately. How can I correct this problem?

gman789

 

[cndcadams]

gman789;
Do you have DNS setup?
If yes compare your other system DNS files such as nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf, defaultrouter etc.. to this systems files?

What if any are the differences in the systems, same network, subnet etc??

CA

 

[bfitzmai]

gman,
Could be something in the users shell specific rc file (.kshrc .cshrc). If the user has something in their path that no longer exists, the OS will try to make a link to that path until it times out. One thing you could try is have the user login under Command Line Login instead of CDE. Error messages may appear when he does that. Or, as root, su - <username> to see if there are any errors.

 

[coffeysm]

Check the . files in his home directory, for owner and permissions. Most likely it is .TTauthority or something, I have some of these files get owned by root.

Also try:

cd /home/dir
mv .dt .dtold

Then try to login