The /usr/bin/id command may appear slow to respond in an IdM / IPA environment
Issue
Why does the /usr/bin/id may take several seconds to return a result in an IdM / IPA environment?
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
Linux ipaserver1.example.com 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 9 08:03:13 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
IPA / Identity Management
ipa-server-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
ipa-client-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
ipa-admintools-2.1.3-9.el6.x86_64
krb5-server-1.9-22.el6_2.1.x86_64
krb5-libs-1.9-22.el6_2.1.x86_64
sssd-1.5.1-66.el6.x86_64
sssd-client-1.5.1-66.el6.x86_64
389-ds-base-1.2.9.14-1.el6.x86_64
pki-ca-9.0.3-20.el6.noarch
beta SSSD:
sssd-1.8.0-15.el6.x86_64
sssd-tools-1.8.0-15.el6.x86_64
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