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+.\" $OpenBSD: getpass.3,v 1.18 2016/09/03 12:47:28 jmc Exp $
+.\"
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+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2016 $
+.Dt GETPASS 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm getpass
+.Nd get a password
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In pwd.h
+.In unistd.h
+.Ft char *
+.Fn getpass "const char *prompt"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bf -symbolic
+This function is obsolete.
+Consider using
+.Xr readpassphrase 3 .
+.Ef
+.Pp
+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
+.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
+(currently 128, as defined in the
+.In pwd.h
+include file)
+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
+The calling process should zero the password with
+.Xr explicit_bzero 3
+as soon as possible to
+avoid leaving the cleartext password visible in the process's address
+space.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion,
+.Fn getpass
+returns a pointer to a NUL-terminated string of at most
+.Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
+characters.
+If an error is encountered, the terminal state is restored and
+a null pointer is returned.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty -compact
+.It Pa /dev/tty
+.El
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINTR
+The
+.Fn getpass
+function was interrupted by a signal.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+The process is a member of a background process attempting to read
+from its controlling terminal, the process is ignoring or blocking
+the SIGTTIN signal or the process group is orphaned.
+.It Bq Er EMFILE
+The process has already reached its limit for open file descriptors.
+.It Bq Er ENFILE
+The system file table is full.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr crypt 3 ,
+.Xr readpassphrase 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+Historically,
+.Bx
+versions of
+.Fn getpass
+have accepted a password on the standard input if
+.Pa /dev/tty
+is unavailable.
+This contradicts
+.St -xpg4.2
+but the
+.Ox
+implementation is conformant in all other respects.
+Removed from
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Fn getpass
+function appeared in
+.At v7 .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+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.