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1.1       root        1: .\"    @(#)getpass.3   6.2 (Berkeley) 1/24/89
                      2: .\"
                      3: .TH GETPASS 3  "January 24, 1989"
                      4: .AT 3
                      5: .SH NAME
                      6: getpass \- read a password
                      7: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      8: .nf
                      9: .B char *getpass(prompt)
                     10: .B char *prompt;
                     11: .fi
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I Getpass
                     14: reads a password from the file
                     15: .IR /dev/tty ,
                     16: or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
                     17: after prompting with the null-terminated string
                     18: .I prompt
                     19: and disabling echoing.
                     20: A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
                     21: of at most 8 characters.
                     22: A calling process should zero the password as soon
                     23: as possible to avoid leaving the cleartext password
                     24: visible in the process' address space.
                     25: .SH FILES
                     26: /dev/tty
                     27: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     28: crypt(3)
                     29: .SH BUGS
                     30: The return value points to static data
                     31: whose content is overwritten by each call.

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