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Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
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Peter Breitenlohner 2009-07-22 11:29:04 +02:00 committed by Karel Zak
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.\" mcookie.1 --
.\" mcookie.1 --
.\" Public Domain 1995 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH MCOOKIE 1 "25 September 1995" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
mcookie \- generate magic cookies for xauth
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "mcookie [\-v] [\-f " filename " ]"
.B mcookie
.RB [ \-v ]
.RB [ \-f
.IR filename ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mcookie
generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the X authority
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.RE
.PP
The "random" number generated is actually the output of the MD5 message
digest fed with various piece of random information: the current time, the
digest fed with various pieces of random information: the current time, the
process id, the parent process id, the contents of an input file (if
.B \-f
is specified), and several bytes of information from the first of the