GETPASS(3) GETPASS(3)
NAME
getpass - read a password
SYNOPSIS
char *getpass(prompt)
char *prompt;
DESCRIPTION
Getpass reads a password from the file 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 8
characters.
FILES
overwritten by each call.