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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 60-second timeout in Unix login
Message-ID: <3516@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 01:06:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 01:06:39 1987
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In article <4139@venera.isi.edu>, cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
> The 60-second timeout in Unix login is not long enough.
> 
> When accessing Unix via various networks or combinations
> of networks, particularly when either the remote machine
> or the local machine is heavily loaded, the 60-second
> timeout will consistently prevent login.

If the remote machine is so loaded that login can't exec your shell
before timing out then you weren't going to get much done anyway.

If the local machine is so loaded that you can't type your login name
and password within 60 seconds, you still weren't going to get much
done.

If the network between the local host and the remote host is so
clogged that you can't get your login name and password to remote
machine within 60 seconds, you certainly shouldn't be loading the net
any further.  And you weren't going to get much done until the network
activity died down, anyway.

60 seconds is a LONG time.