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1 | .TH GETPASS 3 |
2 | .SH NAME | |
3 | getpass \- read a password | |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
5 | .B char *getpass(prompt) | |
6 | .br | |
7 | .B char *prompt; | |
8 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
9 | .I Getpass | |
10 | reads a password from the file | |
11 | .IR /dev/tty , | |
12 | or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input, | |
13 | after prompting with the null-terminated string | |
14 | .I prompt | |
15 | and disabling echoing. | |
16 | A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string | |
17 | of at most 8 characters. | |
18 | .SH FILES | |
19 | /dev/tty | |
20 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
21 | crypt(3) | |
22 | .SH BUGS | |
23 | The return value points to static data | |
24 | whose content is overwritten by each call. |