mcookie — generate magic cookies for xauth
mcookie [−v] [ −f filename ]
mcookie generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the X authority system. Typical usage:
xauth add :0 . `mcookie`
The "random" number generated is actually the output of
the MD5 message 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 −f is specified), and several bytes of
information from the first of the following devices which is
present: /dev/random,
/dev/urandom, files in
/proc, /dev/audio.