V10/man/adm/man3/getpass.3

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.TH GETPASS 3
.CT 2 secur
.SH NAME
getpass \(mi read a password
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B char *getpass(prompt)
.B char *prompt;
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Getpass
reads a password from the file
.FR /dev/tty ,
or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
after prompting with the null-terminated string
.I prompt
and disabling echoing.
A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
of at most 8 characters.
.SH FILES
.TP
.F /dev/tty
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR crypt (3)
.SH BUGS
The return value points to static data
whose content is overwritten by each call.