That helps quite a bit. I had it running, but it had died for some
reason. Although now I'm seeing messages like those below. So it still
seems that the same number of messages are being sent, just faster.

Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16
23 1 3 2}) 128.33.251.52: ISSUE: authtime 1219259086, etypes {rep=16
tkt=16 ses=16}, jschewe at BUM for krbtgt/BUM at BUM
Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16
23 1 3 2}) 128.33.251.52: ISSUE: authtime 1219259086, etypes {rep=16
tkt=16 ses=16}, jschewe at BUM for krbtgt/BUM at BUM
Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16
23 1 3 2}) 128.33.251.52: ISSUE: authtime 1219259086, etypes {rep=16
tkt=16 ses=16}, jschewe at BUM for krbtgt/BUM at BUM
Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): DISPATCH: repeated
(retransmitted?) request from 128.33.251.52, resending previous response
Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): DISPATCH: repeated
(retransmitted?) request from 128.33.251.52, resending previous response
Aug 20 14:04:46 leech krb5kdc[26382](info): DISPATCH: repeated
(retransmitted?) request from 128.33.251.52, resending previous response



Bret Baptist wrote:
> Try installing nscd.
>
>
> Bret.
>
>
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 11:59:18 Jon Schewe wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone setup a kerberos server on Linux? I've got one setup, but
>> it's really slow. Slow here is how long it takes apache to allow me to
>> edit files via webdav or when using subversion. In my previous job I had
>> apache setup to use mod_auth_kerb to do authentication and talk to a
>> windows AD server. This worked nicely and seemed to perform well. Now
>> I'm using the same setup, however I'm using a Linux kerberos server
>> instead and it's really slow. Around 6 seconds to just do an svn ls.
>> When I'm using webdav I see a number of propfind and get log entries in
>> the apache log and they're between 1 and 2 seconds apart. Looking at the
>> kdc log I see lots of entries created like this:
>>
>>
>> Aug 20 11:48:07 leech krb5kdc[25237](info): AS_REQ (7 etypes {18 17 16
>> 23 1 3 2}) 128.33.251.52: ISSUE: authtime 1219250887, etypes {rep=16
>> tkt=16 ses=16}, jschewe at BUM for krbtgt/BUM at BUM
>>
>> Any ideas as to why this is so slow?
>>
>> I've found a patch for mod_auth_kerb that caches the authentication data
>> and that takes care of SVN, however I need group information for webdav,
>> so I'm using mod_authnz_external with pwauth and that's dog slow. So I
>> figure there is a problem with my kerberos server setup.
>>     
>
>   

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