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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2013 01:43:35 -0400
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs>
Cc:        "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: .rnd file after starting X
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgmRndFS_ZOCh-45rX%2BtN874q0Ma-X=NUf6wESF0rTKoJA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131020040409.GA11465@faust.sbb.rs>
References:  <20131020040409.GA11465@faust.sbb.rs>

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On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote:
> After updating to 9.2 release and upgrading ports,
> I had to compile nvidia driver 319.32. Finally, have
> graphics up. One file shows out of the blue, when-
> ever I run startx, spite I remove it regurarly. The
> size is 1024. Man for rand mentions it. I cannot see
> what openssl has to do with X at the moment. Amd64.
> I might send the file if someone wants to take a closer
> look at it.
> Best regards

startx calls openssl rand when creating its cookie file:
163     mcookie=`/usr/bin/openssl rand -hex 16

It is safe to leave this file alone.`



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