@(#)getpass.3 5.1 (Berkeley) 05/15/85
GETPASS 3 "19 January 1983"
.AT 3
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.