thinkfinger: long pause before and after PAM prompt
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thinkfinger (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In jaunty, it takes 5 seconds (!) after I type sudo before the 'Password or swipe finger' prompt shows up. Then if I type my password it takes 11 more seconds (!) until I get a root shell.
The same pauses are present in the login prompt at the text virtual consoles.
If the thinkfinger is busy showing a prompt in one terminal, and I run sudo again in a second terminal, that second terminal gives me a plain [sudo] prompt immediately (no 5 second pause!) and then a root shell ~4 seconds after I press Enter. Those 4 seconds could easily be root's .bash_profile running /etc/bash_
Nevertheless, the pauses before and after the prompt are missing when thinkfinger is not being used, which is why I'm filing this bug report against it.
(I could double-check by disabling thinkfinger altogether in /etc/pam.d, but it's 3 am and I'm afraid to break my system by introducing a typo or something).
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: libpam-thinkfinger 0.3+r118-
ProcEnviron:
LC_CTYPE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thinkfinger
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
confirmed here. delay is gone after uninstalling thinkfinger.