SSH slow to connect to a Solaris 10 host – Sakana.fr

If you experience a slow SSH connection to a Solaris 10 host while after connection everything works fine, then read on !

First try to connect with the verbose option. If the output lines show something like this :
# ssh -v user@hostname [...] debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information No credentials cache found debug1: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information debug1: Next authentication method: publickey [...]

then you can try to prevent SSH from trying GSS API Authentication. Just add the the following option : ssh -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -l user hostname

Alternatively, you can put:
Host hostname GSSAPIAuthentication no

in /etc/ssh/ssh_config (system global config file) or ~/.ssh/config (user specific config file).

5 thoughts on “SSH slow to connect to a Solaris 10 host”

Make that:
~/.ssh/config
instead of:
~/.ssh/ssh_config

With the above correction, your hint was exactly what I needed.

Thanks.

Hi Preston,

Thanks for the correction, and glad this helped !

St�phane

for me it was more useful to do it on the server side in /etc/ssh/sshd_config – same setting, works perfect. thx!

Thanks! This is what exactly I’ve been looking for~ 😀

Thank you 🙂

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