On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Thomas Koenig wrote: > I would suggest adding a line like > > xauth add :0 . `dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=16 | md5sum` util-linux 2.5-5, includes mcookie, a small c program which does this, so the line should really be: xauth add :0 . `mcookie` Incidentally, mcookie tries /dev/random, /dev/urandom, some files in /proc, and /dev/audio as a last resort. Guy