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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)getpass.3   6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
        !             2: .\"
        !             3: .TH GETPASS 3  "May 15, 1985"
        !             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: .SH FILES
        !            23: /dev/tty
        !            24: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            25: crypt(3)
        !            26: .SH BUGS
        !            27: The return value points to static data
        !            28: whose content is overwritten by each call.

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