NAME

getpass − read a password

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

char ∗getpass(const char ∗prompt);

MT-LEVEL

Unsafe

DESCRIPTION

getpass() reads up to a newline or EOF from the file /dev/tty, after prompting on the standard error output with the null-terminated string prompt and disabling echoing.  A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of at most 8 characters.  If /dev/tty cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned.  An interrupt will terminate input and send an interrupt signal to the calling program before returning. 

FILES

/dev/tty

NOTES

The return value points to static data whose content is overwritten by each call. 

SunOS 5.5/SPARC  —  Last change: 22 Jan 1993