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| author | Peter Breitenlohner | 2009-07-22 11:29:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-08-17 12:11:07 +0200 |
| commit | 894aa2f20c706d2f70e3557f67f681797a3a9c06 (patch) | |
| tree | e78ac137cec04f441e061cca3bbbb074a7c26f3c /misc-utils/mcookie.1 | |
| parent | kill.1: formatting (diff) | |
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mcookie.1: formatting
Signed-off-by: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/mcookie.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/mcookie.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/mcookie.1 b/misc-utils/mcookie.1 index 90cff1bab..0396d9a1f 100644 --- a/misc-utils/mcookie.1 +++ b/misc-utils/mcookie.1 @@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ -.\" 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 @@ -14,7 +17,7 @@ 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 +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 |