From 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erlang/OTP <otp@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:54:40 +0000
Subject: The R13B03 release.

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
+
+<erlref>
+  <header>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>1996</year><year>2009</year>
+      <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+    </copyright>
+    <legalnotice>
+      The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+      Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+      compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+      Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+      retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+    
+      Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+      the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+      under the License.
+    
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <title>auth</title>
+    <prepared></prepared>
+    <docno></docno>
+    <date></date>
+    <rev></rev>
+  </header>
+  <module>auth</module>
+  <modulesummary>Erlang Network Authentication Server</modulesummary>
+  <description>
+    <p>This module is deprecated. For a description of the Magic
+      Cookie system, refer to
+      <seealso marker="doc/reference_manual:distributed">Distributed Erlang</seealso> in the Erlang Reference Manual.</p>
+  </description>
+  <funcs>
+    <func>
+      <name>is_auth(Node) -> yes | no</name>
+      <fsummary>Status of communication authorization (deprecated)</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>Node = node()</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Returns <c>yes</c> if communication with <c>Node</c> is
+          authorized. Note that a connection to <c>Node</c> will
+          be established in this case. Returns <c>no</c> if <c>Node</c>
+          does not exist or communication is not authorized (it has
+          another cookie than <c>auth</c> thinks it has).</p>
+        <p>Use <seealso marker="net_adm#ping/1">net_adm:ping(Node)</seealso>
+          instead.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+    <func>
+      <name>cookie() -> Cookie</name>
+      <fsummary>Magic cookie for local node (deprecated)</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>Cookie = atom()</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Use
+          <seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:get_cookie/0">erlang:get_cookie()</seealso>
+          instead.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+    <func>
+      <name>cookie(TheCookie) -> true</name>
+      <fsummary>Set the magic for the local node (deprecated)</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>TheCookie = Cookie | [Cookie]</v>
+        <d>The cookie may also be given as a list with a single atom element</d>
+        <v>&nbsp;Cookie = atom()</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Use
+          <seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:set_cookie/2">erlang:set_cookie(node(), Cookie)</seealso>
+          instead.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+    <func>
+      <name>node_cookie([Node, Cookie]) -> yes | no</name>
+      <fsummary>Set the magic cookie for a node and verify authorization (deprecated)</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>Node = node()</v>
+        <v>Cookie = atom()</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Equivalent to
+          <seealso marker="#node_cookie/2">node_cookie(Node, Cookie)</seealso>.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+    <func>
+      <name>node_cookie(Node, Cookie) -> yes | no</name>
+      <fsummary>Set the magic cookie for a node and verify authorization (deprecated)</fsummary>
+      <type>
+        <v>Node = node()</v>
+        <v>Cookie = atom()</v>
+      </type>
+      <desc>
+        <p>Sets the magic cookie of <c>Node</c> to <c>Cookie</c>, and
+          verifies the status of the authorization.
+          Equivalent to calling
+          <seealso marker="erts:erlang#erlang:set_cookie/2">erlang:set_cookie(Node, Cookie)</seealso>, followed by
+          <seealso marker="#is_auth/1">auth:is_auth(Node)</seealso>.</p>
+      </desc>
+    </func>
+  </funcs>
+</erlref>
+
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