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

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