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Unix

Unix v7

getpass(3)


GETPASS

GETPASS

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS

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 8 characters.

FILES

/dev/tty

SEE ALSO

crypt(3)

BUGS

The return value points to static data whose content is overwritten by each call.



getpass(3)