getpass(S) — Xenix 2.3.4g



     GETPASS(S)               XENIX System V                GETPASS(S)



     Name
          getpass - Reads a password.

     Syntax
          char *getpass (prompt)
          char *prompt;

     Description
          getpass reads a password from the file /dev/tty, or if that
          cannot be opened, from the standard input, after prompting
          with the null-terminated string prompt and disabling
          echoing.  A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
          of at most eight characters.

     Files
          /dev/tty

     Notes
          The return value points to static data whose content is
          overwritten by each call.



































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