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Name

getpass - read a password

Synopsis

#include <stdlib.h>

char *getpass(const char *prompt);

MT-Level

Unsafe

Description

getpass() reads up to a newline or EOF from the file /dev/tty, after prompting on the standard error output with the null-terminated string prompt and disabling echoing. A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string of at most 8 characters. If /dev/tty cannot be opened, a null pointer is returned. An interrupt will terminate input and send an interrupt signal to the calling program before returning.

Files

/dev/tty

Notes

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

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