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