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. 

September 02, 1992