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| 1 | .\" @(#)getpass.3 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
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| 2 | .\"
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| 3 | .TH GETPASS 3 "May 15, 1985"
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| 4 | .AT 3
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| 5 | .SH NAME
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| 6 | getpass \- read a password
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| 7 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 8 | .nf
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| 9 | .ft B
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| 10 | #include <minix/minlib.h>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | char *getpass(const char *\fIprompt\fP)
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| 13 | .fi
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| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 15 | .B Getpass
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| 16 | reads a password from the file
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| 17 | .BR /dev/tty ,
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| 18 | or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
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| 19 | after prompting with the null-terminated string
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| 20 | .I prompt
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| 21 | and disabling echoing.
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| 22 | A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
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| 23 | of at most 32 characters, excluding the null.
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| 24 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 25 | .BR crypt (3).
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| 26 | .SH BUGS
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| 27 | The return value points to static data
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| 28 | whose content is overwritten by each call.
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