groupadd, useradd, etc

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gradwohl" <bill at ycc.com>
To: "Fedora List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: groupadd, useradd, etc


> On a completely patched FC3 box, what could cause groupadd to take over 3 
> minutes to finish?
>
> All the utilities that manage users and groups are incredibly slow, taking 
> several minutes each to complete.
>
> As the only loged in user (I'm still setting this box up) here's a sample:
> root at s2 ~# time groupadd xyz
>
> real    3m16.414s
> user    0m27.906s
> sys     0m8.998s
> root at s2 ~# time groupdel xyz
>
> real    3m14.103s
> user    0m27.141s
> sys     0m9.275s
>
> Ideas?

Are you running any directory services like LDAP or NIS?  What does 
nsswitch.conf look like, please?

Thomas