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.TH GETPASS 3 "May 15, 1985"

.AT 3

.SH NAME

getpass \- read a password

.SH SYNOPSIS

.nf

.ft B

#include <minix/minlib.h>

char *getpass(const char *\fIprompt\fP)

.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B Getpass

reads a password from the file

.BR /dev/tty ,

or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,

after prompting with the null-terminated string

.I prompt

and disabling echoing.

A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string

of at most 32 characters, excluding the null.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR crypt (3).

.SH BUGS

The return value points to static data

whose content is overwritten by each call.