GETPASS(S) XENIX System V GETPASS(S)
Name
getpass - Reads a password.
Syntax
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 eight characters.
Files
/dev/tty
Notes
The return value points to static data whose content is
overwritten by each call.
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