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1.1       root        1: .TH GETPASS 3  "19 January 1983"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: getpass \- read a password
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .nf
                      6: .B char *getpass(prompt)
                      7: .B char *prompt;
                      8: .fi
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: .I Getpass
                     11: reads a password from the file
                     12: .IR /dev/tty ,
                     13: or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
                     14: after prompting with the null-terminated string
                     15: .I prompt
                     16: and disabling echoing.
                     17: A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
                     18: of at most 8 characters.
                     19: .SH FILES
                     20: /dev/tty
                     21: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     22: crypt(3)
                     23: .SH BUGS
                     24: The return value points to static data
                     25: whose content is overwritten by each call.

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