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In case anyone is interested ... Documentation nit: http://www.erlang.org/doc/r8b/lib/kernel-2.7/doc/html/index.html Wherein it says: "At start-up, the first action of the standard auth server is to read a file named $HOME/erlang.cookie" This is repeated again later but the actual file is: $HOME/.erlang.cookie The section on cookie() correctly refers to $HOME/.erlang.cookie.