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quicker ssh

I'm going to make an effort to post more on here in 2010, so here's a start:

I always wondered why sometimes ssh connections from my ubuntu box would seem to take forever, but putty would prompt me for my password almost immediately.

As I discovered today there is an authentication method called GSSAPI used for Kerberos that my ssh client was trying to use. It would try twice and then timeout and continue on to pubkey or keyboard auth. This is where the extra 5-10 second delay was coming from.

A quick edit to /etc/ssh/ssh_config

#    GSSAPIAuthentication yes
#    GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

and my ssh connections are established immediately.

That's one less frustration to deal with