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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man3/getpass.3 b/static/netbsd/man3/getpass.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2c170900 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man3/getpass.3 @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.23 2017/10/24 18:50:46 abhinav Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)getpass.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd April 13, 2012 +.Dt GETPASS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm getpass , +.Nm getpass_r , +.Nm getpassfd +.Nd get a password +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft char * +.Fn getpass "const char *prompt" +.Ft char * +.Fn getpass_r "const char *prompt" "char *buf" "size_t buflen" +.Ft char * +.Fn getpassfd "const char *prompt" "char *buf" "size_t buflen" "int *fd" "int flags" "int timeout" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn getpass +function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password from, +.Pa /dev/tty . +If this file is not accessible, +.Fn getpass +displays the prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard +input. +.Pp +The password may be up to +.Xr sysconf 3 +.Dv _SC_PASS_MAX +characters in length. +Any additional +characters and the terminating newline character are discarded. +.Pp +.Fn getpass +turns off character echoing while reading the password. +.Pp +.Fn getpass_r +is similar to +.Fn getpass +only it puts its result in +.Fa buf +for up to +.Fa buflen +characters. +If the +.Fa buf +argument is +.Dv NULL , +then a buffer will be dynamically allocated. +.Pp +The +.Fn getpassfd +function allows one to specify the three file descriptors corresponding to +.Dv stdin , +.Dv stdout , +and +.Dv stderr +in the +.Fa fd +argument, or if +.Fa fd +is +.Dv NULL , +.Fn getpassfd +first attempts to open +.Pa /dev/tty +and if that fails, defaults to +.Dv STDIN_FILENO +for input and +.Dv STDERR_FILENO +for output. +.Pp +The behavior of +.Fn getpassfd +is controlled by the +.Fa flags +argument: +.Bl -tag -width GETPASS_FORCE_UPPER +.It Dv GETPASS_NEED_TTY +Fail if we are unable to set the tty modes like we want. +.It Dv GETPASS_FAIL_EOF +Fail if we get the end-of-file character instead of returning the result so far. +.It Dv GETPASS_BUF_LIMIT +Beep when the buffer limit is reached, instead of silently absorbing it. +.It Dv GETPASS_NO_SIGNAL +Don't make ttychars send signals. +.It Dv GETPASS_NO_BEEP +Don't beep if we erase past the beginning of the buffer or we try to enter past +the end. +.It Dv GETPASS_ECHO_STAR +Echo a +.Sq * +for each character entered. +.It Dv GETPASS_ECHO +Echo characters as they are typed. +.It Dv GETPASS_ECHO_NL +Echoes a newline if successful. +.It Dv GETPASS_7BIT +Mask the high bit for each entered character. +.It Dv GETPASS_FORCE_LOWER +Lowercase each entered character. +.It Dv GETPASS_FORCE_UPPER +Uppercase each entered character. +.El +.Pp +Finally if the +.Fa timeout +argument is non zero, +.Fn getpassfd +will wait for +.Fa timeout +seconds for input after each character before returning an error, instead of +waiting forever. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn getpass +function returns a pointer to the NUL terminated password, or an empty +string on error. +The +.Fn getpass_r +and +.Fn getpassfd +functions return a pointer to the NUL terminated password, or +.Dv NULL +on error. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty -compact +.It Pa /dev/tty +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr crypt 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn getpass +function appeared in +.St -susv2 , +but it was already marked as legacy. +The function was removed in the +.St -p1003.1-2001 +standard. +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Fn getpass +function appeared in +.At v7 . +The +.Fn getpass_r +and +.Fn getpassfd +functions appeared in +.Nx 7.0 . +.Sh BUGS +The +.Fn getpass +function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns +a pointer to that object. +Subsequent calls to +.Fn getpass +will modify the same object. +.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS +The calling process should zero the password as soon as possible to +avoid leaving the cleartext password visible in the process's address +space. +.Pp +Historically +.Nm +accepted and returned a password if it could not modify the terminal +settings to turn echo off (or if the input was not a terminal). +In this implementation, only terminal input is accepted. |
