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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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