1 .\" @(#)getpass.3 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
3 .TH GETPASS 3 "May 15, 1985"
6 getpass \- read a password
10 #include <minix/minlib.h>
12 char *getpass(const char *\fIprompt\fP)
16 reads a password from the file
18 or if that cannot be opened, from the standard input,
19 after prompting with the null-terminated string
21 and disabling echoing.
22 A pointer is returned to a null-terminated string
23 of at most 32 characters, excluding the null.
27 The return value points to static data
28 whose content is overwritten by each call.