> "That delay is /usr/bin/login searching the system logs so that it can display the date and time of your last login."

Am I missing something? `w` on my linux system takes well below one second:

  [burgerbrain@eeepc] ~ % time w   
  14:11:18 up 19:41,  6 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.10, 0.14
  USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
  REDACTED
  w  0.01s user 0.05s system 61% cpu 0.096 total

I can't imagine why anything like that would ever take anywhere near 5 seconds.