Repeated connections to samba server slower with sudo than with su
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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