70 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
70 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
.\" mcookie.1 --
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.\" Public Domain 1995 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH MCOOKIE 1 "March 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
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.SH NAME
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mcookie \- generate magic cookies for xauth
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B mcookie
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[\fIoptions\fR]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B mcookie
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generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the X authority
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system. Typical usage:
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.RS
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xauth add :0 . `mcookie`
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.RE
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.PP
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The "random" number generated is actually the output of the MD5 message
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digest fed with random information from one of the sources
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.IR /dev/urandom ,
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.IR /dev/random ,
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or
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.I "libc pseudo-random functions"
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in this preference order.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\fR=\fIFILE\fR
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Use additional file as a macig cookie random seed. When file is defined
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as '-' character input is read from stdin.
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.TP
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\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-max\-size\fR=\fInumber\fR
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Read form
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.I FILE
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only
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.I number
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of bytes. This option is meant to be used when reading additional
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randomness from a device.
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.IP
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The
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.I number
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argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB=1024,
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MiB=1024*1024, and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB" is
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optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes
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KB=1000, MB=1000*1000, and so on for GB, TB, PB, EB, ZB and YB.
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.TP
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\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
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Inform where randomness originated, with amount of entropy read from each
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source.
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.TP
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\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
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Display version information and exit.
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.TP
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\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
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Display help text and exit.
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.SH BUGS
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It is assumed that none of the randomness sources will block.
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.SH FILES
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.I /dev/urandom
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.br
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.I /dev/random
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR X (1),
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.BR xauth (1),
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.BR md5sum (1),
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.BR rand (3)
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The mcookie command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
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Linux Kernel Archive
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.UE .
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