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- @.\" @@(#)getpass.3 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
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- .TH GETPASS 3 "May 15, 1985"
- .AT 3
- .SH NAME
- getpass \- read a password
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- .B char *getpass(prompt)
- .B char *prompt;
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .I Getpass
- reads a password from the file
- .IR /dev/tty ,
- or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
- after prompting with the null-terminated string
- .I prompt
- and disabling echoing.
- A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
- of at most _PASSWORD_LEN characters (currently 128).
- .SH FILES
- /dev/tty
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- crypt(3)
- .SH BUGS
- The return value points to static data
- whose content is overwritten by each call.
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