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Date:	Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:47:15 +0000
From:	Stephen Patterson <stephenrpatterson AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Inetd running slow
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On 11/9/05, Danilo Turina <danilo DOT turina AT alcatel DOT it> wrote:
> I had a problem of slowness with inetd and telnetd: when connecting with
> telnet to my machine (even locally) it took much time to prompt for the
> user name.
> I discovered that it was due to the SYSTEM user missing a home in
> /etc/passwd, i.e. when I had the problem the line in /etc/passwd was:

Well, that was obscure but fixed it, thanks :)

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