Re: how to enable magic cookies on W2K cygwin X11?

[Charles Wilson]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:
[some stuff about magic cookies]

cygutils contains the mcookie program from util-linux, if that helps. (It may not; I don't know much about X)

NAME
mcookie - generate magic cookies for xauth

SYNOPSIS
mcookie [-v] [-f filename ]

DESCRIPTION
mcookie generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the
X authority system. Typical usage:
xauth add :0 . `mcookie`

--Chuck