[techtalk] Su slow?

[Sunnanvind]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, jdike at karaya.com wrote:
> > When I hit the enter key after typing in the root password, it takes
> > like a minute or so. That's much slower than before. 
> 
> Did you recently add any new stuff to root's .profile or anything?

I didn't, some trojan might've - where can I find the .profile?

You can tell I'm admignorant if I tried a find / -name .profile -print and
didn't find it.
I have no idea what the .profile is.

> Does the same thing happen if you su as root?

Only when I su *to* root, not when I su from root to
Sunnan.
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