I'm a bit late to this thread but I had the same issue and I found a solution that worked for me and wanted to share it.
Original thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00361.html I already had UseDNS=no, but was still seeing about a 5 second delay after seeing the "Last login: Tue Jun 23 ..." message. My solution: verify that the fifth field in the user entry in /etc/passwd (separating fields with ":") references the correct host name of the machine. For example, when my machine was first set up the host name was vmdocman and so the fifth field had: lincdoc,U-VMDOCMAN\lincdoc,S-1-5-21-329068152-682003330-839522115-1007 This particular machine is a VMware VM and it was copied and renamed to "eForms-Sales". So when I made the entry like below the logins did not have the 5 second delay: lincdoc,U-EFORMS-SALES\lincdoc,S-1-5-21-329068152-682003330-839522115-1007 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
