GETPASS
Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: May 15, 1985
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NAME
getpass - read a password
SYNOPSIS
char *getpass(prompt)
char *prompt;
DESCRIPTION
Getpass
reads a password from the file
/dev/tty,
or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
after prompting with the null-terminated string
prompt
and disabling echoing.
A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
of at most _PASSWORD_LEN characters (currently 128).
FILES
/dev/tty
SEE ALSO
crypt(3)
BUGS
The return value points to static data
whose content is overwritten by each call.
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