On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Keith Medcalf wrote:

> In <Pine.A41.3.95.971022153932.11616C-100000 AT aeserv.technion.ac DOT il>,
> on 10/22/97 at 03:48 PM,
>    Zvi Bar-Deroma <zvika AT AESERV.TECHNION.AC DOT IL> said:
>
>
> Do you have the NODENAME option set?  If you "override" the nodename
> then passwordaccess generate is ignored.

Bingo ! Thanks, Keith .

        Yes I do have the nodename option set, thus overriding the
default hostname (which for various reasons is the host's FQDN).

Now - is this a known limitation (if so why ?) or is it plain bug ..?

/Zvika
>
> >I coded in both an AIX and SGI-IRIX clients' dsm.sys file a line:
>
> >PASSWORDACCESS   GENERATE
>
> >I get no err msgs, but dsmc still asks for the respective clients'
> >passwords. The clients are 2.1.0.6G (AIX) and 2.1.0.6 (IRIX) (yes, I
> >did reply to the pw request by giving it, and then quit dsmc and
> >restarted dsmc).
>
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