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Unix v7 |
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getpass(3) |
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getpass − read a password
char
*getpass(prompt)
char *prompt;
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 8 characters.
/dev/tty
crypt(3)
The return value points to static data whose content is overwritten by each call.
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