On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, John Viksne wrote:

| Is it possible that you are using a nodename in either the dsm.opt
| file or on the command line?  If you do this the client assumes
| you are not really this node, but just pretending for this session
| and it always uses prompt.  If you place this in the dsm.sys file,
| it treats it as an alias and allows passwordaccess generate. (If
| you don't specify it anywhere, the 'hostname' is used.)

That was it!  For some reason I was creating a default dsm.opt in the same
directory with a nodename parameter.  Makes sense what is happening now.

Thanks!

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