Repeated connections to samba server slower with sudo than with su

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Execution of a perl script takes twice as long when run under sudo as opposed to when it is run as root
  • The script only does two calls to smbclient to attempt a connection to a smb server

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • smbclient

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