slow ssh connections?

[lambda]

if you've noticed a slowdown in making ssh connections with newer distributions, and if "ssh -v somehost" says something about a missing credentials cache, look in /etc/ssh/ssh_config for

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GSSAPIAuthentication yes
GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

turning them off will speed things up considerably. stick something like this into your ~/.ssh/config file:

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Host *
        GSSAPIAuthentication no
        GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no

you could change /etc/ssh/ssh_config, but your changes might be overwritten by the next install/upgrade of the openssh-client package.

note that this only speeds up the connection process, not the connection itself. you can make your connection a bit faster on slow links (like dialup) with compression:

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Host *
        Compression yes

[hameedkhan]

Thanks lambda, this was really helpful for me.

Thanks once again.

[salmanslick]

hope this helps !!!!

[lambda]

what's there to hope for? it works.