X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=misc-utils%2Fmcookie.1;h=1ac50ef139e0a2eb864d46a9b017964c8a1e9841;hb=HEAD;hp=90cff1babccd48ccfe070b95182bdcccedd6962d;hpb=86d62711a92e36942f5dda9ba4a0b28578c64caa;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git diff --git a/misc-utils/mcookie.1 b/misc-utils/mcookie.1 deleted file mode 100644 index 90cff1babc..0000000000 --- a/misc-utils/mcookie.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -.\" 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 " ]" -.SH DESCRIPTION -.B mcookie -generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the X authority -system. Typical usage: -.RS -xauth add :0 . `mcookie` -.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 -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 -following devices which is present: -.IR /dev/random , -.IR /dev/urandom , -files in -.IR /proc , -.IR /dev/audio . -.SH BUGS -The entropy in the generated 128-bit is probably quite small (and, -therefore, vulnerable to attack) unless a non-pseudorandom number generator -is used (e.g., -.I /dev/random -under Linux). -.PP -It is assumed that none of the devices opened will block. -.SH FILES -.I /dev/random -.br -.I /dev/urandom -.br -.I /dev/audio -.br -.I /proc/stat -.br -.I /proc/loadavg -.SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR X (1), -.BR xauth (1), -.BR md5sum (1) -.SH AVAILABILITY -The mcookie command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from -ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.