Manual page for GETPASS(3V)
getpass - read a password
SYNOPSIS
char *getpass(prompt)
char *prompt;
DESCRIPTION
getpass()
reads up to a
NEWLINE
or
EOF
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.
An interrupt will terminate input and send
an interrupt signal to the calling program before returning.
SYSTEM V DESCRIPTION
If
/dev/tty
cannot be opened,
getpass()
returns a
NULL
pointer.
It does not read the standard input.
FILES
- /dev/tty
-
SEE ALSO
crypt.3
NOTES
The above routine uses
<stdio.h>,
which increases the size of programs
not otherwise using standard I/O, more
than might be expected.
BUGS
The return value points to static data
whose content is overwritten by each call.
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Last modified 11/5/97
